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The Clue

Nixies and pixies (5 letter answer)

The Answer

ELVES

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Notes

The answer ELVES is uncommon, appearing about once every 475 puzzles.

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Definition

ELVES as a noun:

1. an acronym for emissions of light and very low frequency perturbations due to electromagnetic pulse sources; extremely bright extremely short (less than a msec) electrical flashes forming a huge ring (up to 400 km diameter) in the ionosphere

ELF as a noun:

1. (elf, hob, gremlin, pixie, pixy, brownie, imp) = (folklore) fairies that are somewhat mischievous
2. (extremely low frequency, ELF) = below 3 kilohertz