The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word NASAL
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result NASAL
- Rocketry experts taking line regarding nose
- Section of chin as a location of facial feature
- Twangy part for musician, as always
- Sounding affected by cold, maybe left a clinic from the back
- Dissenting voices will broadcast using a particular organ
- Describing hooter or some siren as “alarm”
- Primarily, noses always sound, appropriately, like - this?
- Marine using switch primarily for volume coming from hooter
- Rocket launchers initially led by the nose
- Rocket launchers start to leak through the nose
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What does NASAL mean?
NASAL noun- A medicine that operates through the nose; an errhine.
- A vowel or consonant (such as [m] or [n]) articulated with air flowing through the nose.
- Part of a helmet projecting to protect the nose; a nose guard.
- One of the nasal bones.
- A plate, or scale, on the nose of a fish, etc.
- Of or pertaining to the nose or to the nasion
- Having a sound imparted by means of the nose; and specifically, made by lowering the soft palate, in some cases with closure of the oral passage, the voice thus issuing (wholly or partially) through the nose, as in the consonants m, n, ng; characterized by resonance in the nasal passage