At right angles to a ship's keel

The answer

ABEAM

5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ABEAM answer page.

Used 12 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2011; first recorded in 1943. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for ABEAM

Every other clue in this collection answered by ABEAM, most used first.

• Perpendicular to the keel - used 43 times, most recently in 2021
• At right angles to the keel - used 32 times, most recently in 2021
• Nautical term. - used 28 times, most recently in 1996
• Nautical direction - used 19 times, most recently in 2017
• Nautical position - used 18 times, most recently in 2026
• Crosswise, on deck - used 16 times, most recently in 2021
• Crosswise, nautically - used 14 times, most recently in 2016
• Crosswise, on a ship - used 9 times, most recently in 2017
• From port to starboard - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
• Crossing the keel - used 6 times, most recently in 2020
• Crosswise to a ship's middle - used 6 times, most recently in 2016
• Crosswise to the keel - used 6 times, most recently in 2012

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• Not quite right - AMISS, used 181 times
• Right-hand page - RECTO, used 143 times
• Just right - IDEAL, used 83 times
• Davis of "Do the Right Thing" - OSSIE, used 56 times
• "Moving right __ . . ." - ALONG, used 40 times
• Make things right - ATONE, used 36 times

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