Answer: AFT
AFT is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 216 times.
Referring Clues:
- Rearward
 - Tailward, on jets
 - Toward the stern
 - Behind
 - Nautical direction
 - Toward the tiller
 - Sternward
 - Not fore
 - Back at sea
 - Back on board
 - Early P.M.
 - Towards the tail
 - Back
 - Toward the rear
 - Away from the bow
 - Stern view?
 - Where jetsam may be thrown
 - 34-Down's opposite
 - Back at sea?
 - Where life jackets may be stored
 - Fore's opposite
 - Time in 65-Down
 - Where the outboard motor goes
 - Back of the boat
 - Toward the tail
 - To the rear
 - Like a jiggermast
 - Tailward
 - Back from boating?
 - Rear
 - Astern
 - Propeller's locale
 - Back, at sea
 - In the back
 - Toward the rudder
 - Fore's partner
 - Swabbie's rear
 - Opposite of fore
 - Naval direction
 - To the rear, at sea
 - Propeller's position
 - Near the rear
 - Opposite the bow
 - Hinder
 - Shipboard direction
 - Rear admiral's rear
 - At the rear
 - To the back
 - Toward the poop
 - Like a spanker
 - Back on the water
 - Away from the prow
 - Near the tail
 - Back, on a ship
 - Back in the air
 - P.M.
 - Toward the back, to a sailor
 - Aircraft section
 - Toward the 37 Down
 - Toward the rear, at sea
 - Behind, at sea
 - Place for the rudder
 - Back, on board
 - 90 degrees from starboard
 - Stern spot
 - Fore partner
 - Fore opposite
 - Back on the boat
 - Fore and ___
 - Toward an airplane's tail
 - Sailor's rear end?
 - At the tiller
 - Sailor's back
 - At the back of the plane
 - Back on the briny
 - At the stern
 - Tiller locale
 - Ninety degrees from starboard
 - Back on a ship
 - Backward
 - Back on the ocean
 - Back of a boat
 - Sailor's rear
 - Toward the stern of a submarine
 - Fore's counterpart
 - Time in a classified ad
 - To the rear, on a boat
 - Near the back, on a ship
 - Toward the wake
 - Toward the tail, in a yacht race
 - Back on a bark
 - Backwards, to Barnacle Bill
 - Where one might head to puke due to motion sickness
 - Ship's end
 - Toward the back of a boat
 - Nautical rear
 - Rear, to an admiral
 - Rearward (nautical)
 - Rear (naut.)
 - Opposite of fore, on a frigate
 - Popeye's behind?
 - Propeller position
 - Toward the back
 - At the back of a boat
 - "Send everyone ___; mastheads there!": Ahab
 - Time in some want ads
 - Time in some want ads
 - In back
 - Stern-ward
 - Back on a boat
 - Ship's back
 - P.M. period
 - Boat back
 - Rear (nautical)
 - Direction at sea
 - Rudder's position
 - Siesta time: Abbr.
 - Back, to Blackbeard
 - "To the rear, Admiral!"
 - "Rear," to an admiral
 - Toward a boat's stern
 - Helm location in a sloop
 - P.M. part
 - Rearward, at sea
 - Plane direction
 - Popeye's back?
 - Sailor's direction
 - Outboard motor's position
 - Back, on a boat
 - Furthest back
 - Toward a boat's back
 - Towards the stern
 - Educational org.
 - Rudder's place
 - Mariner's direction
 - In the back, nautically speaking
 - Back, to a shellback
 - Tar's direction
 - At a boat's back
 - Rudder's location
 - Rear-end indicator
 - Toward the back of the boat
 - Poop deck's place
 - Toward the ship's rear
 - Like a spanker's position on a ship
 - Back, to Popeye
 - Ship's tail
 - Tailgunner's position
 - Direction on a ship
 - Tiller's place
 - Like a mizzenmast on a ship
 - It follows morning (abbr.)
 - Away from the nose
 - Toward the back of a ship
 - Toward a ship's rear
 - Where a rudder is
 - Opposite of "forward"
 - Deck direction
 - Rearward, on board
 - Time to call, in ads
 - Like a boat's cockpit, usually
 - Rudder locale
 - Union alternative to the NEA
 - Place for rudders
 - To a boat's rear
 - Position of some propellers
 - Where to see a wake
 - Back of the space shuttle
 - Back, nautically
 - Back on the plane?
 - Direction on deck
 - Rudder location
 - Tiller locale, to those onboard
 - Toward the propeller, on a boat
 - Admiral's rear
 - Back in the harbor?
 - To a ship's back
 - Back, on the water
 - Ship back?
 - Captain's rear
 - Taffrail's locale
 - Back on board?
 - Back, on the lake
 - Back in a boat
 - Toward the poop deck
 - Back in the water?
 - Rear, at sea
 - Toward the most common part of a boat to fish from
 - Outboard motor's place
 - Rearward, to a mariner
 - Rearward at sea
 - Back, in a boat
 - Toward the rear, on a ship
 - Blackbeard's backward
 - Back to a mate
 - Toward the rear on a ship
 - Back in a shell
 - Direction taken by craftspeople
 - Back in the U.S.S.?
 - Away from a ship's figurehead
 - Toward the 50-Across
 - Direction of many a lavatory on a plane
 - Like the mizzenmast
 - Rear at sea
 - Rearmost, as decks
 - Not forward
 - Rearward, to a rear admiral
 - Forward's opposite
 - Where the coxswain sits
 - Away from the bow, on a boat
 - Second-largest U.S. teachers union
 - Toward the back, at sea
 - Back, to a boatswain
 - Stern direction?
 - At the back of the boat
 - Rear, in the boat
 
Last Seen In:
- New York Times - September 16, 2025
 - LA Times - August 25, 2025
 - LA Times - August 02, 2025
 - New York Times - June 08, 2025
 - LA Times - March 23, 2025
 - LA Times - March 13, 2025
 - LA Times - March 05, 2025
 - LA Times - December 19, 2024
 - New York Times - October 29, 2024
 - New York Times - August 30, 2024
 - New York Times - May 29, 2024
 - LA Times - April 28, 2024
 - LA Times - April 12, 2024
 - New York Times - March 19, 2024
 - LA Times - March 12, 2024
 - LA Times - February 13, 2024
 - LA Times - January 30, 2024
 - New York Times - November 28, 2023
 - New York Times - November 20, 2023
 - USA Today - November 03, 2023
 
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