Deck cleaner
The crossword clue "Deck cleaner" is answered by SWAB, a 4-letter entry. Used 16 times across 14 distinct years; most recently in 2020; first recorded in 1972. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
SWAB
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the SWAB answer page.
Used 16 times across 14 distinct years; most recently in 2020; first recorded in 1972. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other answers for this clue
The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.
- SWABBER (1 uses in xd)
Other clues for SWAB
Every other clue in this collection answered by SWAB, most used first.
- Mop - used 59 times, most recently in 2022
- Q-tip, e.g. - used 54 times, most recently in 2026
- Clear the decks? - used 22 times, most recently in 2025
- Q-Tip, for one - used 18 times, most recently in 2026
- Sailor's mop - used 18 times, most recently in 2025
- Clean the deck - used 15 times, most recently in 2025
- Ear cleaner - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
- Mop the deck - used 13 times, most recently in 2022
- Q-tip - used 13 times, most recently in 2019
- Shipboard mop - used 12 times, most recently in 2012
- Tar - used 12 times, most recently in 2019
- Cotton on a stick - used 10 times, most recently in 2018
- Q-tip, for example - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Sailor - used 10 times, most recently in 2009
- Cotton-tipped stick - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
- Mariner's mop - used 9 times, most recently in 2017
- Cotton-tipped cleaner - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- DNA sample collector - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
- Do the deck - used 6 times, most recently in 2010
- Ear-cleaning implement - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Forensic evidence collector - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
- Mop up - used 6 times, most recently in 2008
- Q-tip tip - used 6 times, most recently in 2019
Related clues
Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.
- On deck - NEXT, used 94 times
- All hands on deck - CREW, used 37 times
- Deck quartet - ACES, used 30 times
- Deck wood - TEAK, used 29 times
- Playing with a full deck - SANE, used 21 times
- Deck worker - MATE, used 15 times
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