GETTING CLOSE TO SOMETHING
Something you are getting close to is just "around" this 4-letter twisty part of a river
a bend
His given name was Mohandas but he also was known as Mahatma, or "great soul"
Ghandi
After you donate blood, this org. says no heavy exercising & "enjoy the feeling of knowing you have helped save lives!"
The American Red Cross
The name of this bewhiskered water dweller can also mean a person who uses a fake profile on social media
A catfish
From a radio he boasted on "Industry Baby" of having "couple Grammys on him, couple plaques"
Lil Nas X
Almost there! You're "in" this, as they say, like Chicago's Wrigley or Boston's Fenway
The ballpark
This jazz great nicknamed "Satchmo" has an airport named for him serving New Orleans
Louis Armstrong
This waxy substance attaches to LDLs, low-density lipoproteins, to build unwanted deposits in blood vessels; watch it!
cholesterol
This hybrid dog breed dates back at least 50 years and is a family favorite
Cockopoo
Mom sent me a clip of this ABC medical drama that premiered in 2005 but is maintaining its practice in the 2021-22 TV season
Grey's Anatomy
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
For leading scores of enslaved people to freedom via the Underground Railroad, she was nicknamed the "Moses of her people"
Harriet Tubman
As well as 8 arms, this creature in a genus of the same name has 3 hearts to pump its blue blood
octopus
The spitting type of this can spray its venom to a distance of 6 1/2 feet
A cobra
My son wanted to watch (again) his favorite movie about this superfast animated critter who got a dental makeover
Sonic the Hedgehog
Doctor Strange tells Tony Stark, "we're in" this "now", a term for the final stage of a chess contest
an endgame
In power from 1985-1991, this last leader of the Soviet Union passed away in 2022 at age 91
Gorbachev
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
Found in South America, it's the largest rodent on planet eartj
A capybara
Season 12 of this show was on at the gym & I watched Gigi Goode sashay on the runway
RuPaul's Drag race
Grooms are said to carry newlywed brides over this entrance to a home
The threshold
This Polish-born French physicist was not only famous for her research on radioactivity, she also coined the term
Marie Curie
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
This critically endangered bird with an alliterative name is the largest flying land bird of North America
It was late but my film major roommate had to watch this Hitchcock "you kill my dad, I kill your wife" classic & I got sucked in
Strangers On A Train