RE-FIGURING
Credit: Will Shortz
NPR Weekend Edition Sunday Puzzle
April 29, 2007

 The answers to the clues below each have two words and each word has four letters. For example, given the clue DEPARTED YEARS AGO,  the answer would be LONG GONE. The answers  also have something else in common. Can you determine what it is?

1. Summer picnic activity
2. It has 366 days
3. He died holding aces and eights
4. Absolute tie
5. The 18th is the last
6. Catalog of wants and desires
7. It's between the  extremes
8. You may find sharks there

Answers:

1. SACK RACE
2. LEAP YEAR
3. WILD BILL
4. DEAD HEAT
5. GOLF HOLE
6. WISH LIST
7. GREY AREA
8. POOL ROOM

What they have in common:

The two middle letters of both words in each answer are the same.