Answer: SWAB
SWAB is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 148 times.
Referring Clues:
- Med lab specimen
- Q-Tip
- Tar
- Q-Tip, for one
- Use a mop
- Nurse's item
- Clear the deck?
- Sailor's mop
- Matey
- Do the deck
- Medium for a medical sample
- Culture transferer
- Mop
- Forensic evidence collector
- Q-Tip, e.g.
- Gun barrel cleaner
- Do a salt's job
- What tars do to decks
- Deck cleaner
- Tidy up topside
- Seaborne lackey
- Shipboard mop
- Ear cleaner
- Clean the deck
- Wash the deck
- Popeye's mop
- Mop up
- Cotton-tipped cleaner
- "Avast!" responder
- Sailor
- Marine's mop
- Hit the deck?
- Mate with a mop
- Clean, as a deck
- DNA collector, perhaps
- Wash, in a way
- Tar (m)
- Work on the deck
- Use a Q-tip
- Mop, as the deck
- Wield a mop
- Ointment applicator
- Nautical mop
- Tar's mop
- Mariner's mop
- Clean a deck
- Specimen collector
- Deck scrubber
- Firearm bore cleaner
- Q-tip tip
- Cotton product
- Do tar work
- Mop the deck
- Deck washer
- Gun or ear cleaner
- Mop, as a deck
- Hand mop?
- Ear-cleaning implement
- Clean, as the Pequod or Bounty
- Crime lab item
- Clean decks
- Hit the deck with a mop
- Clean the orlop
- DNA-sampling tool
- Do a deck?
- Medicine cabinet item
- Cosmetics applicator
- Cosmetics applicator
- Mop the floor
- Mop the decks
- Clear the decks?
- Q-tip end
- Clear the decks
- Q-tips end
- Cotton wad
- Do the decks
- Bit of cotton on a stick
- Ear-cleaning device
- Clean the decks
- Aussie's "ear bud"
- Mate's mop
- Clean, as the poop deck
- Mop decks
- Cotton-tipped stick
- Work on a deck
- Do a deck hand's job
- Medical sample
- Criminal investigator's stick
- Cotton on a stick
- Q-tip, say
- DNA lab item
- Mop onboard
- Mop for a deck
- Aid for collecting some samples
- Wad of absorbent material
- Crow's nest figure
- Absorbent stick
- Crime lab tool
- Forensic investigator's item
- Wound cleaner
- One standing on deck
- 23 Across cleaner
- Maritime mop
- Deckhand
- Deck mop
- Applicator
- Navy enlistee, informally
- DNA-sample collector
- Mop, as ship decks
- It's cotton-tipped
- Mop, as decks
- Make shipshape, as a ship
- DNA collection stick
- 31 Across implement
- Shipboard resident
- Lowly navy person
- Floor mop
- Sailor, or a sailor's implement
- Cleaning tool
- Sailor, informally
- Salt
- Marine mop
- Stick in a cabinet, say
- DNA collector
- Deckhand's tool
- Makeup-applying aid
- Cotton-tipped product
- Clear, as the deck
- Cotton ___
- Multi-purpose cotton wad
- Cotton-tipped item
- DNA test kit item
- Cotton-tipped ear cleaner
- Small cotton-tipped stick
- Clean, as decks
- Sample collector
- Q-tip, for example
- Makeup corrector
- Stick with a soft tip
- Stick in a test kit
- Home test kit component
- Part of a rapid COVID test
- Lowly deckhand
- Covid test component
- Q-tip, for instance
- Test kit item
- Do a spit take?
- DNA kit item
Last Seen In:
- USA Today - October 13, 2025
- LA Times - October 09, 2025
- USA Today - May 22, 2025
- New York Times - May 14, 2025
- LA Times - April 18, 2025
- LA Times - September 11, 2024
- USA Today - July 12, 2024
- New York Times - June 21, 2024
- USA Today - April 15, 2024
- New York Times - December 17, 2023
- USA Today - November 22, 2023
- USA Today - September 27, 2023
- USA Today - September 06, 2023
- LA Times - August 16, 2023
- LA Times - July 11, 2023
- New York Times - June 19, 2023
- New York Times - May 24, 2023
- New York Times - April 10, 2023
- USA Today - February 16, 2023
- New York Times - December 22, 2022
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