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Destroyer Detector Crossword Clue

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noun

• a measuring instrument that sends out an acoustic pulse in water and measures distances in terms of the time for the echo of the pulse to return

38%5Destroyer's destroyer
noun

• military submarine operated by Germany during the First and Second World Wars

38%4Destroyer destroyer
noun

• excavation in the earth from which ores and minerals are extracted

• explosive device that explodes on contact; designed to destroy vehicles or ships or to kill or maim personnel

verb

• get from the earth by excavation

• lay mines

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New York Times13 Nov 1997 Down 30
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