Clues for the word "SWABS"
We've had 51 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 85 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on August 19, 2026.
Referring Clues
- Lab specimens
- Mop wielders
- Tars
- Crime lab items
- Clears the deck
- Does a deck duty
- Cottony bunches
- Gobs
- Cleans, as a deck
- Deck cleaners
- Ear cleaners
- Mops the orlop, e.g.
- Some lab specimens
- Cleans the deck
- Salts
- Gun-barrel cleaners
- Cleans, as the deck
- Q-tips, e.g.
- Sailors' mops
- Gobs' mops
- Large mops
- Q-tip tips
- Q-tips
- Mops decks
- Mops, as the deck
- Does a gob's job
- Collectors of DNA samples
- Slangy sailors
- Obeys a neatnik pirate's command regarding the deck
- Mops
- Clinic supply
- Q-tips, for example
- Does deck duty [SEE NOTE ABOVE]
- Crow's nest figures
- Collects a DNA sample from, say
- Cottony creations
- Sailors
- Med lab specimens
- Alcohol pads for wound care
- Cleans up for lubberly louts
- Lubbers helping with the cleaning
- Wound-cleaning cotton balls
- DNA lab items
- Clean up for the lubbers!
- DNA sample collectors
- DNA kit tools
- Q-tips, for instance
- Lab kit supply
- Uses a mop on
- Covid test components
- DNA samples
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - August 19, 2026
- LA Times - June 18, 2026
- Mindfood Daily - January 20, 2026
- Daily American - October 14, 2025
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - March 15, 2025
- Daily American - March 08, 2025
- Daily American - February 23, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 19, 2024
- Your Life Choices - December 02, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - October 05, 2024
- Your Life Choices - January 11, 2024
- Daily American - October 14, 2023
- LA Times - July 29, 2023
- New York Times - June 28, 2023
- Daily American - March 08, 2023
- New York Times - March 06, 2023
- New Zealand Herald - March 01, 2023
- Daily American - February 23, 2023
- Mindfood Daily - February 01, 2023
- New York Times - August 25, 2022
- Daily American - October 14, 2017
- Mindfood Daily - June 30, 2017
- Netword - June 09, 2017
- Daily American - March 08, 2017
- Daily American - February 23, 2017
- Jonesin - February 14, 2017
- New York Times - April 01, 2016
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - December 05, 2015
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 20, 2015
- Evening Standard Cryptic - August 27, 2015
- And in 55 more crossword puzzles...