“Unusual feature of this puzzle … or, when parsed as two words (1,8), another unusual feature of this puzzle”

Something tapped at a bar

___ monster (only venomous lizard native to the U.S.)

Go caroling, say

British weekly on business, politics and culture, with "The"

Devils' center, appropriately

Ones taking baby pictures in the delivery room, maybe

Stead

University just north of Harvard

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