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Arcane Currents and Celestial Bearings
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
  • 1. Mark revealing max safe submersion to avoid watery grave
  • 2. Ship's underwater depth or strategy games at the captain’s table
  • 3. Pertaining to sky bodies guiding ancient ocean wanderers
  • 7. Magnetic compass error subtly shifting true north’s direction
  • 12. Act of aligning map or compass with terrestrial features
  • 13. Weighted rope gauging abyss depth, older than echo sounders
  • 14. Ancient device tracing the heavens, pivotal for maritime latitude
Down
  • 4. Inertial spinner revealing true north, unbothered by magnetics
  • 5. Vessel's cargo hold or delve through clues in layered navigation
  • 6. Celestial belt wherein the sun’s path guides ancient navigators
  • 8. Angular distance north or south—fundamental oceanic coordinate
  • 9. Detailed oceanic map fragment, essential for route plotting
  • 10. Harnessing ocean's swell to advance, a sailor’s poetic metaphor
  • 11. Line where sea and sky merge—basis for visual sextant fixes
  • 15. Light, large sail catching wind from the front, used off-wind
  • 16. Angular measurement drawing destination’s invisible line forward
  • 17. Enclosed waterway influenced by lunar pull, trapping currents

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