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Security Or Navigational Device Crossword Clue

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We've checked our database and believe the answer is LOCK which was last seen in the The Guardian Quick crossword.
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noun

• a fastener fitted to a door or drawer to keep it firmly closed

• a strand or cluster of hair

• a mechanism that detonates the charge of a gun

• enclosure consisting of a section of canal that can be closed to control the water level; used to raise or lower vessels that pass through it

• a restraint incorporated into the ignition switch to prevent the use of a vehicle by persons who do not have the key

• any wrestling hold in which some part of the opponent's body is twisted or pressured

verb

• fasten with a lock

• keep engaged

• become rigid or immoveable

• hold in a locking position

• become engaged or intermeshed with one another

• hold fast (in a certain state)

• place in a place where something cannot be removed or someone cannot escape

• pass by means through a lock in a waterway

• build locks in order to facilitate the navigation of vessels

51%6 Social security in social security (social security in social security)
adjective

• used of flowers having more than the usual number of petals in crowded or overlapping arrangements

• used of homologous chromosomes associated in pairs in synapsis

noun

• a base hit on which the batter stops safely at second base

• a stand-in for movie stars to perform dangerous stunts

• someone who closely resembles a famous person (especially an actor)

• a quantity that is twice as great as another

• raising the stakes in a card game by a factor of 2

adverb

• downward and forward

• two together

• to double the degree

adjective satellite

• having more than one decidedly dissimilar aspects or qualities

• consisting of or involving two parts or components usually in pairs

• twice as great or many

• large enough for two

• having two meanings with intent to deceive

verb

• increase twofold

• hit a two-base hit

• bend over or curl up, usually with laughter or pain

• do double duty; serve two purposes or have two functions

• make a demand for (a card or suit)

• make or do or perform again

29%7 A navigational device known as a rose when depicted on a map
noun

• navigational instrument for finding directions

• an area in which something acts or operates or has power or control:

• the limit of capability

• drafting instrument used for drawing circles

verb

• bring about; accomplish

• travel around, either by plane or ship

• get the meaning of something

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The Guardian Quick10 Jun 2002 Down 7
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