Code carriers
The crossword clue "Code carriers" is answered by GENES, a 5-letter entry. Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2015; first recorded in 2004. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
GENES
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the GENES answer page.
Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2015; first recorded in 2004. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for GENES
Every other clue in this collection answered by GENES, most used first.
- Trait carriers - used 56 times, most recently in 2026
- Heredity units - used 36 times, most recently in 2025
- Heredity carriers - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
- Heredity factors - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
- Trait transmitters - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
- Chromosome components - used 17 times, most recently in 2025
- Hereditary factors - used 16 times, most recently in 2023
- Pool contents? - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
- Hereditary units - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
- Units of heredity - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
- Bits of heredity - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Chromosome parts - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
- Factors in heredity - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
- Character parts - used 6 times, most recently in 2006
- Gift from parents - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Gifts from Mom and Dad - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
- Pool components - used 6 times, most recently in 2019
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- Code of conduct - ETHIC, used 52 times
- Kind of code - PENAL, used 46 times
- ___ code - PENAL, used 25 times
- Kind of code - DRESS, used 25 times
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