DNA collector, sometimes Crossword Clue

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(verb)
1. wash with a swab or a mop
2. apply (usually a liquid) to a surface
(noun)
1. cleaning implement consisting of absorbent material fastened to a handle; for cleaning floors
2. implement consisting of a small piece of cotton that is used to apply medication or cleanse a wound or obtain a specimen of a secretion

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

COLLECTOR (noun)
1. a person who collects things
2. a person who is employed to collect payments (as for rent or taxes)
DNA (noun)
1. (biochemistry) a long linear polymer found in the nucleus of a cell and formed from nucleotides and shaped like a double helix; associated with the transmission of genetic information

Hint 3: Anagram

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WABS

More WSJ Crossword (11/14/2024) Answers

Across

1. Like a drowning fish, for example

7. One of these probably doesn’t wear one of these

13. Government department

14. Cassiterite source

15. Place in a pyramid, perhaps

16. 1887 Émile Zola novel

17. Enzyme suffix

18. Isolating from each other, as company departments

20. A perfect game lowers it

21. Epiphany honorees

23. Name on “The Big Lebowski” posters

25. Refuse to yield to pressure

27. Hadean, Archean, Proterozoic and Phanerozoic

28. Joined a union?

31. Be disruptively noisy

32. Act on an implicit suggestion

33. Harbor, say

34. Kind of map or college

38. 2005 Fiesta Bowl champions

39. It may be dished

40. “And Then There Were None” director Clair

41. Part of printemps

42. Comparison to a bat

45. Employee contract part, sometimes: Abbr.

46. Author born Howard Allen Frances O’Brien

48. Second-mentioned

50. Saltpeter, for one

51. Retailer with a flagship store in Freeport, Maine

52. Looks down one’s nose at

53. Has hankerings

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Down

1. Rolled steel joists, familiarly

2. Storms

3. Jenna of “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice”

4. Not paleo

5. Brand with wet and dry varieties

6. There are 128 in a cord of 10-Down

7. Bank holding

8. Universal donor type, in brief

9. Gp. for a G.P.

10. See 6-Down

11. Contest hopeful

12. Clean rooms?

14. Do some culling

16. Does what’s expected

19. Stack some boxes?

22. Fluid pipes

24. Canadian Tire Centre player

26. Big bank

29. By decree

30. Penultimate speaker in “King Lear”

31. Recklessly get involved with

32. 1997 movie filmed partly in a 17-million-gallon tank

33. Savage group in “Planet of the Apes”

35. Enterprise patron

36. Like alpacas and guanacos

37. Gets to know

42. Whole grain part

43. Wagons-___ (sleeping cars, abroad)

44. Shopaholic’s delight

47. Do the wrong thing

49. Placeholder letters on a schedule

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