Sunday NY Times Puzzle Advice sought

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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The theme for today’s Sunday puzzle in the NYT is:

Headlines that make you go "huh?"

I worked the whole puzzle out by I am stumped by one answer. The themed clue reads as follows:

Ambiguous headline about Mideast dealings

And the answer is:

IRAQI HEADS OUGHT ARMS

For readability I inserted spaces between the words. Such spaces have never occurred in any crosswords I’ve ever done.)

And just to impart the full flavor of the themed clues, and answers, here are the rest.

First, two caveats:

  1. This is my first attempt with spoilers, so if I screw up I will be properly mortified. If I do and it makes you feel better to to tell me what an asshole I am, please do. But, of course, I know already.

  2. I’m not one of the crossword geniuses. We get the Sunday Times in two parts: The ‘non-newsy fat’ (such as the Sunday Mag, etc.) comes on Saturday, the real news, is delivered on Sunday. Which is why I could post this so early this morning. I worked it out - in about three hours - yesterday.

Here goes:

Ambiguous headline about agriculture legislation

FARMER BILL DIES IN HOUSE

Ambiguous headline about school cooking lessons

KIDS MAKE TASTY SNACKS

Ambiguous headline about construction delay

RED TAPE HOLDS UP BRIDGE

Ambiguous headline about the Bush cabinet

ONEILL IS FED SECRETARY

Ambiguous headline about a police action

COPS HELP DOG BITE VICTIM

Well, the spoilers worked but they are over extended. Can someone suggest the reason, please?

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Oops. I don’t know if I made my question clear enough.

That first answer throws me a little. I can state - almost for a dead certainty - that it is exactly what the Crossowrd Constructor expects. But even though i looked up ‘ought’ I still have a bit of a problem with understanding it.

Can you interpret the damned thing?

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IRAQI HEAD SOUGHT ARMS

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Son of a gun!

Thanks, da.