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Ship Sinker Crossword Clue

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99%7Exact Match!
noun

• a professional killer who uses a gun

• a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States

• an explosive device that is set off in an oil well (or a gas well) to start or to increase the flow of oil (or gas)

• a small firework that consists of a percussion cap and some gravel wrapped in paper; explodes when thrown forcefully against a hard surface

• a small explosive device that is placed on a railroad track and fires when a train runs over it; the sound of the explosion warns the engineer of danger ahead

• armament consisting of a long cylindrical self-propelled underwater projectile that detonates on contact with a target

• any sluggish bottom-dwelling ray of the order Torpediniformes having a rounded body and electric organs on each side of the head capable of emitting strong electric discharges

verb

• attack or hit with torpedoes

98%5Exact Match!
noun

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

36%8 Requires a heavy sinker
noun

• a headline with the top line flush left and succeeding lines indented to the right

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New York Times29 Sep 2015 Down 11
New York Times01 Oct 2013 Across 61
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