Answer:

scrub

Answer	Crossword Clue
SCRUB	Postpone the launch
SCRUB	Second-stringer
SCRUB	Swab

SCRUB	Do the floors
SCRUB	Clean with elbow grease
SCRUB	Probable benchwarmer
SCRUB	Clean with effort
SCRUB	Use elbow grease
SCRUB	Cancel
SCRUB	Prepare to operate
SCRUB	Prepare for surgery

SCRUB	Benchwarmer
SCRUB	Clean diligently
SCRUB	Clean using elbow grease
SCRUB	Cancel, slangily
SCRUB	Use elbow grease on
SCRUB	Attack baked-on grease, say
SCRUB	Deep-clean
SCRUB	Second- or third-stringer

SCRUB	Wash with elbow grease
SCRUB	Prepare for the OR
SCRUB	Kind of nurse
SCRUB	Sanitize with a brush
SCRUB	Perform a preop procedure
SCRUB	Hit the dirt?
SCRUB	Wash before surgery
SCRUB	Abort a mission

SCRUB	One way to clean
SCRUB	Bench rider
SCRUB	Cancel at NASA
SCRUB	Use Comet on
SCRUB	Clean vigorously
SCRUB	Use an S.O.S pad
SCRUB	Stunted tree
SCRUB	Third-stringer

SCRUB	Second-string player
SCRUB	Wash thoroughly
SCRUB	Do some cleansing
SCRUB	Cancel, so to speak
SCRUB	Clean well

Crossword

a puzzle consisting of a grid of squares and blanks into which words crossing vertically and horizontally are written according to clues.