⚓ Daily Maritime Crossword

19 / JUL / 2026 — everyone worldwide gets the same puzzle today. The world's first maritime-only crossword — 259-term nautical corpus.

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Yesterday's clues & answers — 18 / JUL / 2026

Newspaper-style: today's page publishes the full solution to Saturday's puzzle (14 maritime terms). Today's answers stay hidden until tomorrow — play the grid above, or replay Saturday's grid.

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United States Coast Guard — the US federal service responsible for maritime safety, security, and SAR (4) — USCG
To bind the strands at the end of a rope with a tight wrapping of twine to prevent unravelling (4) — WHIP
Global Navigation Satellite System — the umbrella term covering all satellite positioning constellations: GPS (USA), GLO… (4) — GNSS
A pivoting keel that can be raised into a trunk to reduce draft and lowered to resist leeway (11) — CENTERBOARD
A horizontal handle (or extension) fixed to the rudder stock, used to steer a smaller yacht (6) — TILLER
The floor of a cockpit or cabin (4) — SOLE
Forward movement through the water (7) — HEADWAY

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(Pronounced 'gunnel') The top edge of the hull where deck meets topsides (7) — GUNWALE
A secondary anchor, smaller than the bower, carried for manoeuvring or for kedging the boat off a grounding (5) — KEDGE
The side or direction away from the wind — where the wind is blowing toward (7) — LEEWARD
The forwardmost structural member of the hull — the bow's leading edge (4) — STEM
Forward, or toward the bow (4) — FORE
To hold, and keep tension on, the free end of a line while a winch grinder takes turns on the drum (4) — TAIL
A piece of standing rigging supporting a mast in the fore-and-aft direction (4) — STAY

Great for studying COLREGs, VHF procedure, navigation marks, rigging and seamanship vocabulary — or just as a spoiler if you got stuck.