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Vocabulary Building Blocks: (17 Across) smelt (VERB) Reduce ores by fusion in a furnace; extract metals by heating. [Derived from Old Dutch smelten "to melt".] Smelt as a NOUN: 1. Small trout-like silvery marine or freshwater food fishes of cold northern waters, used extensively as a food fish. 2. Small cold-water silvery fish. They migrate between salt and fresh water. (There are American smelts, deep-sea smelts, European smelts, herring smelts, New Zealand smelts, rainbow smelts, and southern smelts, among others.)
Did You Know? (30 Down) An ungulate is any hoofed mammal. There are a large number of dissimilar animals classified as ungulates. The even-toed ungulates include the antelope, camel, cattle, deer, giraffe, hippopotamus, and pig. The tapir is an odd-toed ungulate, as is the donkey, horse, and rhinoceros. The tapir is a chiefly nocturnal ungulate of Central and South America and southeast Asia, having a heavy body and fleshy snout. Tapirs can grow fairly large, weighing up to 500-660 pounds (225-300 kg). They are herbivorous and feed on fruit, leaves and vegetation.
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