Crossword-Solution: SILENCERS 9 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

These might be of a comparatively simple nature, a matter of fitting silencers to the doors and putting up double windows to keep out the noise; but they might extend much further and involve more or less elaborate changes in the interior arrangements.

You can fire a rifle fitted with one of these silencers in a small room and it makes no more noise than a fairly loud sneeze ...” “Ah!” Robin was listening intently now.

Silencers are damned hard to get hold of, but people with plenty of money can manage most things." And as Dexter Sprague had talked on, more and more glibly, Dundee had suddenly found an explanation which fitted his own argument with such perfection that he wondered, naïvely, if he were perhaps gifted with clairvoyance.

And the Altamont company had recently finished making a series of "underworld" motion pictures--crook dramas featuring gunmen with "rods" made eerily noiseless by Maxim silencers.

What he had been doing there he did not deign to state; but I had a dim idea that when you went to call on a motor-car in its den, you spent hours on your back bolting nuts, or accelerating silencers, or putting the crank head (and incidentally your own) into an oil bath; and I supposed that Terry had been doing these things.