Common Bond

All answers share a common bond.

-1. successors
-2. tonics
-3. you come in it for gold?
-4. keepsakes
-5. runway
-6. drones
-7. tasty chocolate covered bakery treats
-8. murderous
-9. empirical
-10. the second floor perhaps
-11. furniture for your den or your kitchen or your deck
-12. church groups
-13. animals that looks like a cross between a pig and an anteater
-14. biographies written from personal knowledge or special sources
-15. hairy
-16. the oldest child
-17. Middle East leaders
-18. business and financial dealings
-19. not ours
-20. French pirate ships

7. eclairs
8. bloodthirsty

3 - first place

1. heirs

2. boosts

Hi Cue.

14. memoirs

love the common bond

5 good solves

I'll take #1, Remi

I'm not a big fan, Joan

2. Elixirs
10. Upstairs

Yep!

12. choirs

13. Tapirs
15. Hirsute

19. theirs

4. souvenirs
6. airstrips
20. corsairs

6. whirs

17. Emirs

I think you found it. Great solves!

9. firsthand

18. affairs

A nice pair, Michele

16. firstborn

Yes!

11. chairs...and goodbye to the IRS

Yes indeed, Joan. That's enough of them for another year.