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Daily Maritime Crossword
April 27, 2026 · skippercheck.net/crossword
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April 27, 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 — April 26, 2026

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

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      1. A sail drawing properly, filled with wind and not luffing (4) — FULL
      2. To bind the strands at the end of a rope with a tight wrapping of twine to prevent unravelling (4) — WHIP
      3. The cooking area below decks, typically containing a gimballed stove, sink, refrigeration, and lockers (6) — GALLEY
      4. A pivoting keel that can be raised into a trunk to reduce draft and lowered to resist leeway (11) — CENTERBOARD
      5. In the IALA Region B buoyage system (USA, parts of the Americas, Japan, Korea, Philippines), an odd-numbered green cylin… (3) — CAN
      6. The upper corner of a sail; also, the marine toilet (4) — HEAD
      7. To tie down, lash, or make fast (6) — SECURE

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      1. The steering control — tiller or wheel (4) — HELM
      2. A line rigged through a cringle a short way above the tack of the mainsail and pulled down to increase luff tension, fla… (10) — CUNNINGHAM
      3. A horizontal handle (or extension) fixed to the rudder stock, used to steer a smaller yacht (6) — TILLER
      4. The aft edge of a fore-and-aft sail (5) — LEECH
      5. A long cone or series of small cones streamed on a bridle from the stern in very heavy weather to slow the boat, keep he… (6) — DROGUE
      6. Toward, at, or behind the stern (3) — AFT
      7. To let a sheet, halyard, or other line run out in a controlled manner (4) — EASE

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