The answers to the clues below will have something in common. Can you determine what it is?

1. Celebrated English university

2. Make a long story short

3. Leave jobs on bad terms

4. Practice diplomacy

5. Simon and Garfunkel classic 

6. Connect things that are separated

7. Legendary Venice, Italy structure

8. Past disagreements that are no longer of concern

9. Legendary structure in the San Gabriel Mountains of southern California 

Answers:

 

1. Cambridge

2. Abridge

3. Burn bridges

4. Build bridges

5. "Bridge Over Troubled Water"

6. Bridge the gap

7. Bridge of Sighs

8. Water under the bridge 

9. Bridge to Nowhere