The answers to the clues below will have something in common. 

1. Make spiffy

2. Peace offering

3. Target for a bribe 

4. Beginning of Lent

5. Yearn for longingly 

6. Kitchen furnishings

7. Breakfast condiment 

8. Well-worn joke or story 

9. Noted Los Angels Hospital

10. Andrew Jackson, familiarly 

11. Metaphor for grief and resilience

 

Answers:

 

1. Spruce up

2. Olive branch

3. Itchy palm

4. Ash Wednesday

5. Pine away

6. Oak cabinets

7. Maple syrup 

8. Old chestnut

9. Cedars of Lebanon

10. Old Hickory

11. Weeping willow - - - Names of trees