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noun • a component of a mixture that has been separated by a fractional process • a small part or item forming a piece of a whole • the quotient of two rational numbers verb • perform a division | ||||||||
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WHALEBONE which was last seen in the The Guardian Cryptic crossword.
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WHALEBONE
Updated: October 14, 2023
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