Clue: Repeated by rote ... or a word that's mixed up in three themed answers

Answer: PARROTED

Length: 8

---

Similar Clues:

• Espresso order, or what each word pair in the theme answers synonymously represents (DOUBLESHOT with 10 letters)
• Massachusetts school ... and a description of the two-word meeting that occurs at the intersections of pairs of starred answers (HOLYCROSS with 9 letters)
• Repeated words in a drill sergeant's marching order, and a hint to how the first and second word, in turn, of each starred answer would be touch-typed (LEFTRIGHT with 9 letters)
• Choice words swapped in this puzzle's theme answers (ANDOR with 5 letters)
• Word needed to be added to 12 appropriately placed answers in this puzzle for their clues to make sense (AROUND with 6 letters)
• Informal chat, and based on the starts of the starred answers, this puzzle's title (BULLSESSION with 11 letters)
• Word that can follow the starts of this puzzle's five longest answers (CASE with 4 letters)
• Repeated word in '02 Sheryl Crow album title (CMON with 4 letters)
• Former UN leader Hammarskjöld [Note: The circled letters comprise a three-word instruction that, when applied to one square in the completed grid, reveals a group who might follow a code of silence] (DAG with 3 letters)
• Deg. of the professional who may instruct you to do the last words of the four longest puzzle answers (DDS with 3 letters)