Coastal Crossword Puzzle

Put Your Beachcombing Knowledge to the Test

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3. Glass device used in the mid-19th century on telegraph wires

5. Nickname for sea glass that is so dark it appears black

6. Glass orb developed in Norway in the 1840s for the fishing industry

7. Glass byproduct of the iron smelting process

8. A distinctive blue and white pattern on pottery.

11. A spiral or turn in a shell

13. Type of bottle sealed with a marble

17. Classic ceramics with a matte “biscuit” finish and relief decorations in a range of colors and white

19. Bottle, jar, or other container used to store liquids

20. Pencil-shaped fossils from an extinct squid-like cephalopod

21. The largest piece of beach glass ever was found in this lake

24. Nickname for colorful glass often found in Seaham, England

26. Opaque glass tile from the 1930s with ridges on one side

28. Glass that has been naturally tumbled in salt water.

31. California town that was home to an art glass studio

32. Minnesota’s state gemstone, characterized by colorful bands

33. Larger-sized marble, also called the “Boss,” used to play Ringer

35. Colorful glassware mass-produced in the early 20th century

37. “Lucky stones” are actually the ear bones of this type of fish

40. Known as floating gold, this comes from a whale’s bile duct

41. Rocks with fluorescent sodalite found near the Great Lakes

43. Beach rock with round holes in it

44. Colored by combining a thin layer of colored glass over clear glass

45. Opening or open space in a shell

46. Cape May ____: Nickname for quartz stones found in New Jersey

50. A shell that spirals to the left

53. Victorian button style made of jet or black glass

55. Rock-like structure created when lightning strikes sand

58. A T-shaped circular piece used to seal bottles, decanters, and vials

59. ____ purse: Nickname for an egg casing from a shark, ray, or skate

59. Grey rock encircled by a single, unbroken white line

61. Opaque and translucent white glass also known as opal glass

62. Debris from a ship’s cargo lost in the water by accident

64. Sea glass that has been exposed to the high temperature of a fire

65. The central column or axis of a spiral univalve shell

66. Spiderweb-like cracks on pottery glaze

67. Soft fleshy body of a mollusk

68. Ceramics painted or decorated with clay thinned with water

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1. Glass that has been naturally tumbled in fresh water such as a lake or river

2. Mollusk with a one-part shell that usually spirals

4. ____ jug: A vessel with a bearded face made along the Rhine River in the 16th–18th centuries

8. Mollusk with a shell made up of two parts joined by a hinge

10. Bottle style with rounded bottom, stored on its side

12. ____ line: A strip of debris left on a beach by the receding waves

14. Round, flat, glass game pieces from Japan

15. Fossil known as a sea lily that was actually a marine animal

16. Controversial practice of throwing broken glass along the shoreline

18. Nickname for salt-glazed, mottled  stoneware marbles

22. ____ top: Thick bottle-lip style developed in the 1850s

23. A wave in 1997 washed 62 cargo containers of these toys overboard

24. Whimsical name for sea glass based on a folktale

27. Extinct predator whose fossilized teeth are found on the beach

29. Sand collector

30. Nickname for a small Victorian-era procelain doll

34. Hard, red gemstones found by mudlarks along the Thames

36. This type of crab makes its home in empty mollusk shells

38. This crab has been around for 450 million years

39. Michigan’s state stone, technically a fossilized colony coral

42. Nickname for glass with wire inside

47. Fossilized cephalopods with ribbed, spiral shells

48. This type of “sand” found in Okinawa, Japan, is the remnants of tiny organisms

49. Cracking lines in a piece of glass caused by temperature changes

50. Hard-coated seed from a pod that drifts on sea currents

54. The concave bottom of many wine bottles

56. Translucent glass that casts an orange shadow in bright light

57. Bottles containing this were often embossed with grooves, bumps, ridges, or skulls

60. Ceramics decorated with stamps, often manufactured in Scotland

63. Ingredient in canary or Vaseline glass that glows under black light

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