Enigmarch 2025, Day 9: SHIP

[NOTE: I totally misremembered which was the Day 8 and which was the Day 9 prompt, so this is getting posted out of order, to my chagrin. Day 8 forthcoming.]

I would like to apologize to any number of authors. I would like to apologize to the entire AO3 community. I would like to apologize to all decent society. I would like to apologize to my parents, and I pray they never see this puzzle.

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I Ship It

1. "I've been thinkin' maybe it's time I put somethin' more than rum in yer hold." (7)


2. He swore to her they would be together until the end, until the day a shark took him down, or her, or--and how fervently he hoped this would be the case--both of them, together. (6)


3. "There, now," he murmured into her keel. "Medea never has to know." (2)


4. How well he knew that too much time in a submarine could warp a man's thoughts, but he had been under her spell for as long as she had been under the surface, and only in the West would they be free. (2)


5. He wondered: did she get the same thrill he did from chasing whales? Or when his wooden leg clacked against her wooden deck? (1)


6. "Shhh, don't worry, love. I'd never let a one-legged mutinous cook take you from me." (1)


7. The worst part of having Eleanor on board, of course, was that it kept him from expressing his passion--his symmetric, limited-palette passion--towards his craft. (2)


8. She had borne witness to his battles with boy and reptile, and each defeat drew them closer together, man and boat. (3)


9. After the Prince and the crew had gone to bed, he remained on deck, considering his ship. Though Aslan never spoke of it explicitly, he suspected that the lion disapproved of love between species...and what he felt for his vessel went far, far beyond that. (7)


10. The Silmaril shone across her deck, and he watched the light play along her bow with nothing short of pure love. (2)

'Ships: ARGON - BLACK SPARROW - EÄRENGILOT - HISPOLETT - JOLLY ROOK - LORD DRINDAWN - MARKTOBER - PEQUAB - QUORCA - ZISSAFONTE

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