GOOD ONES!Secrecy metaphors CLOSETS [as in "skeletons in..."]
Fast times? LENTS
Collectors' targets DEBTORS [I was thinking coin collectors, etc.]
Feature of Goliath, but not giants HARDG
Cooling-off period? ICEAGE
Debs in politics EUGENE [I thought debutantes, not Eugene V.]
The theme's extra Y made some good entries:
AY THERES THE RUB
YWORLDWAR
YDENSEFOG
YIt strains credulity and bends all odds, but Lash LaRue was used in puzzles by two different constructors --- two days apart.