Connected Clues

Find answers to the clues below. And yup, all the answers share a common connection

-1. Dustin Hoffman film
-2. Laboratory equipment
-3. Communist dictator
-4. Second largest constituent of vinegar
-5. Mafia member
-6. Warner Brothers' cartoon character
-7. Portable stereo
-8. Novelty form of illumination
-9. Diacritical mark
-10. Capsize
-11. American country-rock band
-12. Pressured urban routine
-13. Type of multi-signatory petition
-14. "Barberella" character
-15. Italian film director

3. Pol Pot

5. made man

7. boom box

2. Bunsen burner

All look good to me!

8. lava lamp

10. Turn turtle

Bernie

Both good!

4. acetic acid

1. Marathon Man

6. Bugs Bunny

14.Durand Durand

15. Federico Fellini

hmm, I wonder what the connection could be...

12. rat race

9. acute accent

11 Creedence Clearwater

soot - first letter is spot-on, try following it with a vowel

All the others tie up with mine...

13. round robin

Yes, Sondi!

11. Counting Crows?

Nope - but the "Co" is correct

11. Commander Cody

Good one, Sondi - I was beginning to think I was the only person ever to have heard of him!