WFC 2025 Crossword Puzzle

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Across
  1. 3. back of a boat
  2. 5. ebbs and flows
  3. 9. special tail that helps seahorses hold on to things
  4. 11. grass that survives being alternately submerged in water and exposed to air twice a day
  5. 12. member of the spider family that has survived little changed for 450 million years
  6. 15. celestial body with the most impact on tides
  7. 17. tack that has right of way
  8. 19. Atlantic menhaden
  9. 20. founder of the WFC
Down
  1. 1. who filters up to 50 gallons of water per day as an adult
  2. 2. 25th
  3. 4. summer flounder
  4. 6. catadromous fish that spawns in the Sargasso Sea and matures in estuaries
  5. 7. free energy for sailing
  6. 8. optimist's steering wheel
  7. 10. protected body of water where fresh water from land meets salt water from ocean
  8. 13. who uses other creatures' shells as portable houses
  9. 14. horseshoe crab's spiky tail
  10. 16. 6-month pause in harvesting imposed to study the bottom of Oyster Bay
  11. 18. protectors of the environment