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28% | 5 | Had a small lead | ||||||
adjective satellite • having a specified kind of border or edge • (of speech) harsh or hurtful in tone or character • having a cutting edge or especially an edge or edges as specified; often used in combination | ||||||||
19% | 6 | Rock band 'The Kinks' had a lead guitarist named Dave ___ | ||||||
noun • English chemist who was a pioneer in electrochemistry and who used it to isolate elements sodium and potassium and barium and boron and calcium and magnesium and chlorine (1778-1829) | ||||||||
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