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Pal innately moved to music area (3,3,5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

tin pan alley

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'music area' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both locations as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps there's an association between them I don't understand?

'pal innately moved' is the wordplay.
'moved' indicates anagramming the letters.
'pal'+'innately'='palinnately'
'palinnately' is an anagram of 'TIN PAN ALLEY'.

'to' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for tin pan alley that I've seen before include "music came out of this" , "Realm of popular music producers" , "Commercial side of show business and pop music" , "Name for the realm of popular music production" , "District concerned with production of popular music - commercial side of pop music" .)

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