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14 / 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 — 13 / MAY / 2026

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

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      1. A fast-moving, short-lived storm cell producing sudden strong winds and often heavy rain (6) — SQUALL
      2. To interpose a sail or other object between the wind and another sail so the downwind sail is starved of breeze (7) — BLANKET
      3. The direction (usually in degrees true) in which a current flows (3) — SET
      4. A pivoting keel that can be raised into a trunk to reduce draft and lowered to resist leeway (11) — CENTERBOARD
      5. To reduce effective sail area in strong wind by rolling, folding, or partly lowering a sail (4) — REEF
      6. To remove water from inside the vessel, traditionally with a bucket or scoop (4) — BAIL

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      1. To propel a boat with a single oar worked side-to-side through a notch or rowlock in the transom (5) — SCULL
      2. Differential GPS — a GPS that uses correction signals from ground or satellite-based reference stations to refine accura… (4) — DGPS
      3. A thin strip of timber, fibreglass, or carbon inserted into a pocket along the leech of a sail to maintain its aerodynamic shape (6) — BATTEN
      4. A large headsail whose clew overlaps the mast, giving extra upwind drive compared with a working jib (5) — GENOA
      5. A secondary anchor, smaller than the bower, carried for manoeuvring or for kedging the boat off a grounding (5) — KEDGE
      6. To put away neatly and securely (4) — STOW
      7. The forward end of the vessel (3) — BOW
      8. To roll or gather up a sail so it stows neatly on a boom, stay, or inside a spar (4) — FURL
      9. The outgoing phase of the tide, when water level is falling and the flow runs seaward (3) — EBB

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