Historical clue formulations

• Do a spit take? — 2025-05-14
• Covid test component — 2024-06-21
• Lowly deckhand — 2023-12-17
• Q-tip, e.g. — 2023-06-19
• Home test kit component — 2023-05-24
• Q-tip, e.g. — 2023-04-10
• Stick with a soft tip — 2022-12-22
• Makeup corrector — 2022-12-09
• Sample collector — 2021-12-08
• Clean, as decks — 2021-11-19
• Clear, as the deck — 2020-07-17
• Q-tip, e.g. — 2020-04-27
• Q-tip tip — 2019-09-23
• Clear the decks? — 2019-08-31
• DNA collector — 2019-08-23
• Stick in a cabinet, say — 2019-08-09
• Deckhand — 2019-07-11
• Tar — 2019-06-08
• Mop — 2018-10-28
• Q-tip, e.g. — 2018-10-01
• Q-tip, for one — 2018-06-18
• Lowly navy person — 2017-10-13
• Make shipshape, as a ship — 2017-05-04
• Navy enlistee, informally — 2017-02-10
• Mop, as a deck — 2016-11-16
• One standing on deck — 2015-08-02
• Crime lab tool — 2015-04-12
• Aid for collecting some samples — 2014-10-11
• Mop — 2014-08-17
• Q-tip, e.g. — 2013-04-05
• Deck washer — 2013-02-19
• Tar — 2012-06-17
• Q-tip, e.g. — 2010-11-24
• Mop — 2010-11-23
• Shipboard mop — 2010-08-25
• DNA collector, perhaps — 2009-12-30
• Sailor — 2009-10-07
• Seaborne lackey — 2008-05-11
• Q-Tip, e.g. — 2007-05-23
• Tidy up topside — 2007-05-01
• Deck cleaner — 2007-01-09
• What tars do to decks — 2006-04-04
• Tar — 2005-04-30
• Do a salt's job — 2005-04-27
• Gun barrel cleaner — 2004-10-05
• Tar — 2004-04-22
• Q-tip, e.g. — 2003-11-10
• Forensic evidence collector — 2003-05-29
• Culture transferer — 2002-12-20
• Mop — 2002-03-17