CRAFTY
Credit: NY Times Crossword
August 6, 1995
Manny Nosowsky (adapted)

The clues below can be answered with words or phrases containing the names of boats. Wordplay is fair play.

1. What the face of Helen of Troy did
2. Pursue in error
3. Gem of the Persian Navy
4. Venetian expression of sympathy
5. Angry Eskimo's remark
6. Naval Academy professor's comment to two students

Answers:

1. Launched a thousand ships
2. Bark up the wrong tree 
3. Rubaiyacht of Omar Khayyam
4. "My gondolances"
5. "Umiak me so mad."
6. "Uboat flunked."