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Daily Maritime Crossword
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⚓ Daily Maritime Crossword

May 5, 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 — May 4, 2026

      Newspaper-style: today's page publishes the full solution to Monday's puzzle (15 maritime terms). Today's answers stay hidden until tomorrow — play the grid above, or replay Monday's grid.

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      1. On a cutter, the inner headsail set on an inner forestay between the bow and the mast; more generally, any sail set on a stay (8) — STAYSAIL
      2. The vertical distance from the waterline to the deck edge (9) — FREEBOARD
      3. A pivoting keel that can be raised into a trunk to reduce draft and lowered to resist leeway (11) — CENTERBOARD
      4. The direction (usually in degrees true) in which a current flows (3) — SET
      5. Search and Rescue Transponder — an emergency device that, when triggered by an X-band radar pulse, replies with a 12-dot… (4) — SART
      6. The generic term at sea for any rope in use (4) — LINE

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      1. See jibe — a turn in which the stern passes through the wind (4) — GYBE
      2. Length Overall — the maximum fore-and-aft hull length, excluding bowsprits and pulpits unless specifically included (3) — LOA
      3. Outside the rail, or toward or beyond the sides of the boat (8) — OUTBOARD
      4. A secondary anchor, smaller than the bower, carried for manoeuvring or for kedging the boat off a grounding (5) — KEDGE
      5. The crew member steering the boat at a given moment (8) — HELMSMAN
      6. To sail a course that will clear a mark or obstacle without an additional tack (3) — LAY
      7. To let a sheet, halyard, or other line run out in a controlled manner (4) — EASE
      8. To put away neatly and securely (4) — STOW
      9. To hold, and keep tension on, the free end of a line while a winch grinder takes turns on the drum (4) — TAIL

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