Answer: SCRUB
SCRUB is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 93 times.
Referring Clues:
- Second-stringer
- Third-stringer
- Do away with
- Cancel
- Prepare for surgery
- Do a pre-op chore
- Substitute
- Wash hard
- Bench sitter
- Clean with elbow grease
- Cancel, at Cape Canaveral
- Wash with elbow grease
- Cancel, slangily
- Clean with effort
- Benchwarmer
- Prepare for the OR
- Kind of nurse
- Sanitize with a brush
- Perform a preop procedure
- Hit the dirt?
- Call off
- Clean using elbow grease
- Clean diligently
- Do some cleansing
- Clean well
- Cancel, so to speak
- Scour thoroughly
- Cancel, à la Mission Control
- Use elbow grease
- Subject to friction
- Scour, as pots
- Wash very hard
- Cancel, as a mission
- Go without launch?
- Cancel, as a launch
- Terminate
- Scour
- Abort, as a mission
- Prepare for an operation
- Clean with a vengeance
- Abandon
- Cancel, as a rocket launch
- Prepare to operate
- Prep for surgery
- Stunted tree
- Wash before operating
- Clean thoroughly
- One seen during a blowout
- Wash thoroughly
- Nix
- Clean
- Wash the pots
- Use elbow grease on
- Rub clean
- Player way down the bench
- Attack baked-on grease, say
- Use a wire brush on
- Deep-clean
- Use a Brillo pad
- Abort a mission
- Call off, as a mission
- Use steel wool
- Use Comet on
- Cancel at NASA
- Wash vigorously
- Hit the dirt hard?
- Brush
- Clean with hard rubbing
- Clean, as dishes
- Cancel, as a space trip
- Use an S.O.S pad
- Clean vigorously
- Bench warmer
- Cancel, as a space mission
- Exfoliating lotion
- Clean very well
- Wash dishes, perhaps
- Bush
- Work hard to clean
- Fourth-stringer
- Wash with vigor
- Cancel, as a blast-off
- Clean with S.O.S
- Skin exfoliant
- Clean with a wire brush
- Exfoliating product
- Take out of the game
- Second- or third-stringer
- No first-stringer
- Really clean
- Clean with steel wool
- Go after grime
- Use a loofah
Last Seen In:
- LA Times - September 15, 2025
- USA Today - August 01, 2025
- USA Today - January 23, 2025
- LA Times - December 22, 2024
- New York Times - August 21, 2024
- LA Times - June 16, 2024
- USA Today - February 09, 2024
- USA Today - September 11, 2023
- LA Times - August 12, 2023
- New York Times - July 29, 2023
- New York Times - March 31, 2023
- New York Times - December 04, 2022
- New York Times - May 23, 2022
- LA Times - May 01, 2022
- USA Today - December 07, 2021
- New York Times - October 17, 2021
- USA Today - May 06, 2021
- USA Today - March 17, 2021
- Universal - March 08, 2021
- Universal - January 08, 2021
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