Copper In Missing Persons Finds Destroyer

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noun • migratory grasshoppers of warm regions having short antennae • hardwood from any of various locust trees • any of various hardwood trees of the family Leguminosae
	37%	9		Missing persons who are now officially non-persons
noun • a person regarded as nonexistent and having no rights; a person whose existence is systematically ignored (especially for ideological or political reasons)
	37%	5		Destroyer's destroyer
noun • military submarine operated by Germany during the First and Second World Wars

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The Guardian Cryptic13 Feb 2008	Down 16
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