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Sunday Puzzle: Pay A-T-tention to these words

Lance MacBlane plays the puzzle with puzzlemaster Will Shortz and NPR's Asma Khalid.
Sunday Puzzle

I'm going to give you clues for two words. Insert the letters A-T consecutively inside the answer to the first clue to get the answer to the second. Example: One who1. Go through again, as an experience / Uncle or cousin2. Hunter constellation / Grand speech3. Name of a sea off the coast of Alaska / Chewing out4. Buddhist place of worship / Shaped pattern used for making reproductions5. Voltaire satire / One running for office6. Pierce slightly, as with a needle / Saint celebrated on March 177. Longtime leader of Cuba / Male singer with a high voice8. Like flypaper / Like radio reception during a storm9. Act of changing from one form to another, as Fahrenheit to Celsius / Chat between two or more people

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