Commonalities

A la Pandora: The words in each set have a connection, something that
could apply to all three of them in some way. For example: leg, sound
barrier, bread = things you can break.

-1. hinge, knee, floorboard
-2. rope, snake, hose
-3. wedding, nose, phone
-4. memory, friend, opportunity
-5. prisoner, trap, leak
-6. fire, candle, cigarette (3 answers, 2 given: light, extinguish. Hint for 3: it has 3 degrees.)
-7. person, beets, herring
-8. bone, clock, table
-9. salad, doll, wound
-10. eyes, relationship, pasta

Have fun!

3. ring

6. Things you can light and things you can extinguish??

Hi Jema.

8. things you set

9. Things you dress

4. Things you can lose (or gain for that matter)

Bernie

1. things that creak

5. things you can spring (or that can be sprung )

Wow! These are going like hotcakes.

Flo, Sherlock, Doreen, Bernie, LadyK, Sondi

Curly, I never thought of extinguish. I changed it to 3 answers and you have 2.

2 - things that can be coiled

And another one bites the dust!

niteowl

7. Things that can be pickled?

6. hold

like your puzzles

Bob

Thanks, Niki. Pandora originated these. Mine pale by comparison.

Please try again for #6. Hint: Touch me not.

You're amazing, Jema!

10. things that are strained?

Thanks, Pandora. That's high praise coming from you.

CCbomber

That only leaves the 3rd answer for #6. I added a hint.

6. things that burn

That's the one, manxman.

Thanks everyone.