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In sports or in the arts, it's the opposite of "professional"
amateur
Bummer, dude! Getting otitis media before a rock concert totally messes up this all-important sense
hearing
Doc holds a tongue depressor & says, "Open wide" to check the pair of these at the back of your throat
tonsils
A shortened form of Christmas is spelled this way
xmas
Your tresses, your locks, your mop
hair
RIDDLES
I make a loud sound when I’m changing. When I do change, I get bigger but weigh less. What am I?
If you're a girl with a low singing voice, you're not a soprano, you're one of these
an alto
Your tactile sense; it can proverbially be this "& go"
touch
It's the Roman numeral 4, or an abbreviation for a device that drips fluid into patients
IV
High-energy radiation used to take a picture of your insides
xray
It's what you "jump out of" when you're frightened
your skin
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It's a 4-letter synonym for water. as well as a shade of light greenish-blue
aqua
If you have the "Second" type of this sense, you already knew you'd answer this clue correctly
sight
An "arm hug" is what your doctor, or your mom, may call the cuff that tests this
blood pressure
A percussion instrument played with small mallets
Xylophone
It's a blood vessel that carries blood to the heart
a vein
They're found on top of grandpa's old TV set (& on mosquitoes' heads)
antennas
DAILY DOUBLE!!!
You can have a lack of it in fashion
The person who takes your X-rays wears a film badge to monitor exposure to this
radiation
Microsoft first released this console in 2001
Xbox
1 of the 5 parts of your eyeball that fit the category
the iris (or lens, cone, rods, or uvea)
This herring-like fish likes to travel in large schools before it ends up on your pizza
an anchovy
Use your septum & posterior nares to help get this sense of your surroundings
smell
A weak form of a disease agent used to protect against the disease, it comes from the Latin word for "cow"
vaccine
He is a mutant who's secret power is being a telepath
Charles Xavier / Professor X
DAILY DOUBLE!!!
With a cleft in it to allow room for the heart, your left one only has 2 lobes instead of 3 like the right