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⚓ Daily Maritime Crossword

12 / MAY / 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 — 11 / MAY / 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. Length Waterline — the fore-and-aft length of the hull measured at the waterline; a major factor in hull speed (3) — LWL
      2. Digital Selective Calling — a feature of modern VHF and SSB radios that allows a pre-formatted digital distress alert, i… (3) — DSC
      3. To reduce effective sail area in strong wind by rolling, folding, or partly lowering a sail (4) — REEF
      4. A pivoting keel that can be raised into a trunk to reduce draft and lowered to resist leeway (11) — CENTERBOARD
      5. To turn the bow through the eye of the wind so the boat changes from one close-hauled course to the other (4) — TACK
      6. A U-shaped metal fitting closed by a threaded pin (D-shackle, bow shackle, snap shackle etc (7) — SHACKLE

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      1. Any pole that supports a sail — mast, boom, gaff, sprit, yard, whisker pole, or spinnaker pole (4) — SPAR
      2. The generic term at sea for any rope in use (4) — LINE
      3. A fabric and framework spray hood forward of the cockpit that shelters the crew from wind and spray (6) — DODGER
      4. A legacy unit of depth equal to six feet (1 (6) — FATHOM
      5. To roll or gather up a sail so it stows neatly on a boom, stay, or inside a spar (4) — FURL
      6. A tapered hardwood or metal spike used to open the strands of a rope when splicing (3) — FID
      7. A sail that has been trimmed so the wind pushes against the reverse side of the cloth, filling it from behind (5) — ABACK
      8. A pyrotechnic distress signal — handheld red flares are for close-range visibility, parachute red flares for long-range,… (5) — FLARE
      9. To bind or secure with line or webbing (4) — LASH

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