NY Times Crossword
November 27, 2008
Patrick Berry

The answers to the clues below share a very unusual quality. Can you determine what it is?

1. Took a risk
2. Digestive parts
3. Livery blacksmith
4. Athletic colleague
5. Restriction on drinking
6. Most promising options
7. Come back - as after vanishing

Answers:

1. STUCK ONE'S NECK OUT
2. INTESTINES
3. HORSESHOER
4. TEAMMATE
5. LEGAL AGE
6. BEST BETS
7. REAPPEAR

What the answers have in common:

The second half of each answer recycles the letters of the first half:

1. stuck oneSNECK OUT
2. intesTINES
3. horseSHOER
4. teamMATE
5. legaLAGE
6. bestBETS
7. reapPEAR 

NOTE: See also TWIN WORDS posted under DOUBLE LETTERS on 12/1/09