Connected Clues

All answers connected by a common thread - your job is to figure the connection

-1. Steering device
-2. More expensive
-3. Often denoted by a siren
-4. Scottish singer, once with Fairground Attraction
-5. Polite term for your rear end
-6. What you don't want to see on your hard drive
-7. German Renaissance artist and printmaker
-8. Species of duck
-9. Mathematically-inclined snake?
-10. Character played by John Wayne
-11. Member of a Celtic pre-Christian order
-12. Moved unsteadily
-13. City in Central Alberta, Canada - also an animal
-14. Make fun of
-15. Person appearing in a public exhibition of cowboy skills

1. rudder

5. posterior??

Hi Rog.

I'll take Cue's

In the right sort of area, Remi ( ), but doesn't fit the connection

11. Druid

9. adder

7. Durer

4 - eddi

Great solves!

niteowl - can you add a surname to that and still keep the connection?

5. How about bottom

Still not there, Remi - check for a pattern in the previous answers

4 - eddi reader

13. Red Deer

5. A bit of help Remi? How about Derriere?

12. dodder

2. Dearer

14. deride

3. air raid

They all look like aces to me, folks!

15. Rodeo rider

8 - eider

too slow again

Excellent! Bijou hints for the stragglers tomorrow

10. Dare Rudd

6. disk error?

Cheryl - nearly there. A subdivision of your answer would be good

Cue - I salute you! I messed up big-time.

I was thinking of the film Hellfighters where I thought John Wayne played Red Adair, but it was another character based on Red Adair. I'd never even heard of your character, and what a coincidence that it fitted the connection Well ferretted-out...

disk read error?

Putting you out of your misery -> "read error" (only Rs, Ds and vowels)