Cephalopod Known For Its Shell Crossword Clue

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	noun • a submarine that is propelled by nuclear power • cephalopod mollusk of warm seas whose females have delicate papery spiral shells • cephalopod of the Indian and Pacific oceans having a spiral shell with pale pearly partitions
	44%	7		Cephalopod mollusk known for its coiled shell
	noun • a small tropical cephalopod of the genus Spirula having prominent eyes and short arms and a many-chambered shell coiled in a flat spiral
	42%	9		Cephalopod mollusk known for its spiral-shaped shell
	noun • type genus of the family Argonautidae: paper nautilus

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1	A puck used in the game octopush; British slang for a pound sterling; or, a fast-swimming often bioluminescent or colour-changing cephalopod, known as calamari when prepared as food Telegraph Giant General Knowledge - 25 Feb 2023	Telegraph Giant General Knowledge / 25 Feb 2023
2	Cephalopod known for its lovely shell
3	Cephalopod mollusk known for its spiral-shaped shell
4	French for a snail in its natural state or served in its shell with garlic butter Telegraph Giant General Knowledge - 26 Aug 2023	Telegraph Giant General Knowledge / 26 Aug 2023
5	Key part of a cephalopod's defense mechanism New York Times - 12 Oct 2023	New York Times / 12 Oct 2023
6	Marine cephalopod The Guardian Quick - 10 Jul 2006	The Guardian Quick / 10 Jul 2006
7	The iridescent coating of its shell is known as mother-of-pearl New York Times Mini - 25 Aug 2018	New York Times Mini / 25 Aug 2018

O. W. Holmes's was chambered
Submarine - mollusc
Gym equipment
Just a shell until USA converted it into a nuclear sub
Insult divers find acceptable to the French sub
Vessel in "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea"
Captain Nemo's final resting place
Spiral-shelled creature
Captain Nemo's submarine

Sea creature whose name means "sailor"
Creature that moves by jet propulsion
Sea creature — literary submarine
Captain Nemo's vessel
Sea creature — as usual, it changed after new start
Nemo's vessel
Guardian follows one into unlit derelict submarine
From the Greek for “sailor”, a marine mollusc whose name originally referred to the floating argonaut octopus, wrongly believed by Aristotle to use its tentacles as sails

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