GETTING CLOSE TO SOMETHING
NOTABLE NAMES
THERE WILL BE BLOOD
200
Something you are getting close to is just "around" this 4-letter twisty part of a river
a bend
200
His given name was Mohandas but he also was known as Mahatma, or "great soul"
Gandhi
200
After you donate blood, this org. says no heavy exercising & "enjoy the feeling of knowing you have helped save lives!"
the (American) Red Cross
400
Almost there! You're "in" this, as they say, like Chicago's Wrigley or Boston's Fenway
the ballpark
400
This jazz great nicknamed "Satchmo" has an airport named for him serving New Orleans
Louis Armstrong
400
This waxy substance attaches to LDLs, low-density lipoproteins, to build unwanted deposits in blood vessels; watch it!
cholesterol
600
Expectorating is a fancy way to say this, involving a bodily fluid; if you're within its "distance", you're close to your target
spitting
600
For leading scores of enslaved people to freedom via the Underground Railroad, she was nicknamed the "Moses of her people"
Harriet Tubman
600
As well as 8 arms, this creature in a genus of the same name has 3 hearts to pump its blue blood
an octopus
800
Doctor Strange tells Tony Stark, "we're in" this "now", a term for the final stage of a chess contest; so are you
an endgame
800
In power from 1985-1991, this last leader of the Soviet Union passed away in 2022 at age 91
Gorbachev
800
cancer.gov says this blood disease occurs most often in adults over 55 but is also the most common cancer in kids younger than 15
leukemia
1000
Grooms are said to carry newlywed brides over this entrance to a home; you're at one now figuratively with regard to winning
the threshold
1000
This Polish-born French physicist was not only famous for her research on radioactivity, she also coined the term
Marie Curie
1000
It's got glucose, it has proteins to help blood to clot & this liquid makes up about half of the content of the blood
plasma