In an unpublished chapter of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Captain Nemo asks another captain to assist with four naval training exercises as seen below. (This is supposedly due to the other captain's extensive knowledge of fish, though this turns out to be a misunderstanding.)
In this puzzle, you must recreate these exercises by placing all four fleets so that no ships come into contact, even diagonally - and even if the ships aren't participating in the same exercise. Nemo was only able to provide less than half of his expected complement of vessels, and so several of his vessels participated simultaneously in multiple exercises. The other captain supplied all of the other vessels, and each only participated in one exercise.
First, though, you should use the clues below to find Nemo's vessels, as well as the locations where nothing (not even a letter) is allowed to enter.
ACROSS
- Screen
- B horizon, e.g.
- Spy in the news in 1994
- Barbie Girl band
- Partial proof, possibly
- White house area
- Go round in circles, maybe
- Slangy negative
- Picnic at 11-down
- Maintain possession of
- What Windows has that DOS did not
- Carpenter's activity, at times
- Stadium shout
- Perl alterternative
- Dander
- Mongol's dwelling
- Forced endurance
- Turbulent
- Grown-up grub
- Even if, poetically
- TV's Tatyana and Mahershalalhashbaz
- Lessen in intensity
- Toddler's booboo
- Th. D.'s subj.
- FaceBook event notification, e.g.
- It's mouth-watering
- Uncalled-for
- Induce a perjurer
- You might catch it at the X-Games
- WETA Digital competitor
- Long-time MTV show: abbr
- Disappears into the atmosphere, perhaps
- Wheat: Fr.
- Major "Chuck" sponsor
- Protuberance on a shield
- Home of the San Marino GP
- Duck: sp.
- Come down
- Watering holes of sorts
- Org. of like-minded people, perhaps
- Portend
- Mother-of-pearl
- Fraternity characters
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DOWN
- Overtly masculine
- Peer
- Distance unit equivalent to 80 Gunter's chains
- Actor famous mostly around Denver
- Like impulse-powered travel on Star Trek
- Make more attention-getting
- Science magazine in print from 1978 to 1995
- __ Little Teapot
- Create a blockade, with "to"
- Completely wrong, so to speak
- Home to Haleakala National park
- Nicole's Moulin Rouge co-star
- Tighten one's lugs
- __ Arena (where the Kings play)
- Be inquisitive
- Co. nicknamed "Big Brown"
- Sends an unsolicited manuscript, say
- Become cynical
- That's clearly unbelievable
- The O in Monopoly's B & O Railroad
- Coward on the stage
- It gets raised on a farm
- Titular apiarist of 1997
- End of a famous Clinton evasion
- Anarchistic activity
- First player to win the Hart Trophy three times in a row
- Fashion's Tahari
- Monastic title
- Crooner who penned the autobiography "Singing was The Easy Part"
- Tenant-to-tenant agreement
- More phat
- Dustin's "Midnight Cowboy" role
- Site of Interpol's headquarters
- Cambridge, to Boston
- Chat user's "That's hilarious!"
- Bibliographic abbr.
- Anjou kin
- Below average
- Ovine utterance
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