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Fishing and Boats mini crosswords

Fishing and Boats is theme 15 of 29 in Theme Minis, filed under water and shore. It holds 35 small crosswords, 18 are 5×5 and 17 are 6×6, and every one of them leans on words from water and shore.

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The make-up of Fishing and Boats

A puzzle here carries 10 to 12 clues, 380 in all. Of those answers, 103 are on-subject words (3 to 6 letters), picked from a list of 98; the others are plain fill.

Every Fishing and Boats puzzle, numbered

Below are the puzzles in order. A pair of clues from each gives you a sense of how fishing and boats is handled; solving them is up to you.

  1. Puzzle 1, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Flat cargo boat pushed along a river” and “Small sail ahead of the mast”
  2. Puzzle 2, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Wide salt water” and “Large seagoing vessel”
  3. Puzzle 3, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Mesh for scooping up the catch” and “Metal fitting you tie a rope to”
  4. Puzzle 4, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Water ___, towed behind a boat” and “Canvas that catches the wind”
  5. Puzzle 5, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Toothy predator of the deep” and “Long snakelike swimmer”
  6. Puzzle 6, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Box of hooks and lures” and “Big ocean fish sold in cans”
  7. Puzzle 7, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Shiny fake fish” and “Everyone working aboard”
  8. Puzzle 8, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Front of the boat” and “Sheltered water along the coast”
  9. Puzzle 9, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Trail of churned water behind a boat” and “Swell rolling toward shore”
  10. Puzzle 10, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Where the water meets the land” and “Fancy pleasure boat”
  11. Puzzle 11, 5×5 grid, 10 clues
  12. Puzzle 12, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “What sticks up from a shark's back” and “Boat that carries cars and people across”
  13. Puzzle 13, 5×5 grid, 10 clues
  14. Puzzle 14, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Left side, at sea” and “Speckled stream fish”
  15. Puzzle 15, 5×5 grid, 10 clues
  16. Puzzle 16, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Bowline or clove hitch, or a speed at sea” and “Flat floating platform”
  17. Puzzle 17, 5×5 grid, 10 clues
  18. Puzzle 18, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Walkway out over the water” and “Inland water good for angling”
  19. Puzzle 19, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Biggest creature in the ocean” and “Vast body of salt water”
  20. Puzzle 20, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Throw the line out” and “Sideways walker caught in a trap”
  21. Puzzle 21, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Small marker that dips when a fish bites” and “Toward the stern”
  22. Puzzle 22, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Weighted lure you bounce” and “Breaking water at the beach”
  23. Puzzle 23, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Thick gray trouble for a skipper” and “You row with a pair of them”
  24. Puzzle 24, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Bird that follows the boat” and “Thin end of the pole”
  25. Puzzle 25, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Flat swimmer with a whip of a tail” and “Long pole for angling”
  26. Puzzle 26, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “___ fishing, done through a hole” and “Striped panfish”
  27. Puzzle 27, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Wicker basket for the day's fish” and “Wide salt water”
  28. Puzzle 28, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Shallow patch, or a school of fish” and “Long snakelike swimmer”
  29. Puzzle 29, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Feathered lure for a trout” and “Tiny young fish”
  30. Puzzle 30, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Handle that turns the rudder” and “Twice-daily rise and fall”
  31. Puzzle 31, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Sandy edge of the sea” and “Popular freshwater game fish”
  32. Puzzle 32, 6×6 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Book of the ship's daily record” and “Filament off the reel”
  33. Puzzle 33, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Sailboat with a single mast” and “Popular freshwater game fish”
  34. Puzzle 34, 6×6 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “The day's haul” and “White fish of the North Atlantic”
  35. Puzzle 35, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Call for help at sea” and “___ fishing, done through a hole”

A few more clues from Fishing and Boats

Here are six clues the theme draws on; try to guess the answers before you play:

  • “Steering blade at the stern”
  • “Where the boat ties up”
  • “Where the wheel is”
  • “Small room below deck”
  • “The outgoing tide”
  • “Vessel on the water”

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Themes near Fishing and Boats

All 29 themes are on the Theme Minis topics page. For a different daily game, see the Rewind trivia branches or the Stepword ladders.