Just A Shell Until Usa Converted It Into A Nuclear Sub Crossword Clue

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We think the answer is "NAUTILUS" which means:

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• 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

An example sentence would be:

• "The nautilus is a cephalopod mollusk with a spiral shell."
• "The nautilus uses its tentacles to catch prey."

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	Clue	Source
1	H<sub>2</sub>O sources New York Times - 09 Dec 1984	New York Times / 09 Dec 1984
2	Has a famous shrine called Usa Hachiman-gū in Usa, Oita
3	Nuclear agcy. until 1975 New York Times - 27 May 2005	New York Times / 27 May 2005
4	Often involves creating sub-lists or sub-tasks
5	Sub-sub-players New York Times - 08 May 2011	New York Times / 08 May 2011
6	Theologian, until converted by article, right behind revolutionary force The Guardian Everyman - 16 Jul 2017	The Guardian Everyman / 16 Jul 2017
7	To die for, fancy (Foreign Office rejected) finish of nuclear sub? The Guardian Cryptic - 18 Feb 2010	The Guardian Cryptic / 18 Feb 2010

O. W. Holmes's was chambered
Submarine - mollusc
Gym equipment
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
Cephalopod known for its shell
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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