Cryptic crossword clue
Broken pieces presenting difficulty aboard ship 6

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word SHARDS

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The straight part
We know that "Broken pieces" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case broken pieces = shards.
The cryptic/wordplay part
In cryptic crossword there's often an wordplay/cryptic part as well.
This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
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What does SHARDS mean?

SHARDS noun
  1. A piece of broken glass or pottery, especially one found in an archaeological dig.
  2. (by extension) A piece of material, especially rock and similar materials, reminding of a broken piece of glass or pottery.
  3. A tough scale, sheath, or shell; especially an elytron of a beetle.
  4. An instance of an MMORPG that is one of several independent and structurally identical virtual worlds, none of which has so many players as to exhaust a system's resources.
  5. A component of a sharded distributed database.
  6. (singular or plural) A piece of crystal methamphetamine.
SHARDS verb
  1. To fall apart into shards, usually as the result of impact or explosion.
  2. To break (something) into shards.
  3. To divide (an MMORPG) into several shards, or to establish a shard of one.

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