It Seems To Pray Over Its Prey

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	noun • predacious long-bodied large-eyed insect of warm regions; rests with forelimbs raised as in prayer
	30%	7		Bird seems to miss catching possible prey
	noun • an overhang consisting of the fan-shaped part of the deck extending aft of the sternpost of a ship
	28%	4		Prey of female bird of prey?
	noun • a domesticated gallinaceous bird thought to be descended from the red jungle fowl • the flesh of a bird or fowl (wild or domestic) used as food verb • hunt fowl • hunt fowl in the forest

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New York Times14 Jan 1981	Across 26
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