Forensic evidence collector
The crossword clue "Forensic evidence collector" is answered by SWAB, a 4-letter entry. Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 2003. 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 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 2003. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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
- Deck cleaner - used 16 times, most recently in 2020
- 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
- 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.
- Lint collector - TRAP, used 27 times
- Bit of evidence - CLUE, used 19 times
- Appendectomy evidence - SCAR, used 12 times
- Incision evidence - SCAR, used 12 times
- Piece of evidence - CLUE, used 12 times
- Leaf collector - RAKE, used 9 times
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