GERM
4 letters
Historical clue formulations
- Genesis — 2025-12-07
- Starting point — 2024-12-05
- "Do you, my poppet, feel infirm? / You probably contain a ___": Ogden Nash — 2022-10-14
- Microbe — 2022-07-11
- Kernel of an idea — 2022-05-08
- Beginning stage — 2021-12-26
- Start of an idea — 2020-11-11
- Start of an idea — 2020-10-28
- Start of a 14-Across — 2020-09-24
- Seed — 2019-11-16
- Wheat ___ — 2019-06-02
- Cause of a cold — 2018-04-18
- Wheat ___ — 2018-03-15
- Target for a disinfectant wipe — 2017-10-30
- ___ warfare — 2017-09-13
- Infection cause — 2017-08-22
- Start of an idea — 2017-01-31
- Genesis of an idea — 2016-11-06
- Wheat ___ — 2016-05-01
- Thought starter — 2016-04-09
- It can make you sick — 2015-08-01
- Purell target — 2014-08-10
- Bug — 2013-03-11
- Seed — 2012-07-19
- It might make you sick — 2011-07-20
- It may be what ails you — 2011-02-28
- Lysol target — 2011-01-19
- Basis — 2010-11-19
- "Cootie" — 2010-10-27
- Start, as of an idea — 2010-04-06
- Idea's start — 2010-02-28
- Starting point — 2009-11-29
- Listerine target — 2009-03-31
- Beginning, as of an idea — 2008-01-27
- It might make you sick — 2007-10-28
- It's sickening — 2006-07-21
- Spark — 2006-06-03
- It can make you sick — 2004-11-01
- Starting point — 2003-08-23
- Start of an idea — 2003-07-09
- Start of an idea — 2001-09-23
- Idea's beginning — 2001-02-07
- Origin, as of an idea — 2001-01-30
- Disease cause — 2000-05-31
- Starting point — 1998-04-23
- Kind of warfare — 1998-04-22
- Microbe — 1997-05-05
- Start, as of an idea — 1996-08-28
- Listerine target — 1996-04-07
- Wheat center — 1996-03-21
