NY Times Crossword
February 4, 2010
Matt Ginsberg

The two answers to each clue below all share the same relationship. What are the answers and how are they related? One of the answers to #4 has three words.

1. Military division - Shorten, as a book
2. Was sorrowful - Split apart, as a road
3. Coagulate, as blood - Room in a house
4. Moderately slow tempo - Finished
4. Drift aimlessly - Like Leningrad and St. Petersburg

Answers to the clues:

1. BRIGADE - ABRIDGE
2. GRIEVED - DIVERGED
3. THICKEN - KITCHEN
4. ANDANTE - AT AN END
5. MEANDER - RENAMED 

Shared relationship:

The two words in each answer are anagrams of each other.