Comet component Crossword Clue

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Comet component Crossword Answer

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(noun)
1. a spy employed to follow someone and report their movements
2. the rear part of a ship
(verb)
1. go after with the intent to catch
2. remove or shorten the tail of an animal

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

COMPONENT (noun)
1. an artifact that is one of the individual parts of which a composite entity is made up; especially a part that can be separated from or attached to a system
2. an abstract part of something
COMET (noun)
1. (astronomy) a relatively small extraterrestrial body consisting of a frozen mass that travels around the sun in a highly elliptical orbit

Hint 3: Anagram

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ALIT

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Down

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