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⚓ Daily Maritime Crossword

15 / 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 — 14 / MAY / 2026

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

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      1. The recessed working area of the deck where the helm, sheets, and instruments are usually grouped (7) — COCKPIT
      2. A pyrotechnic distress signal — handheld red flares are for close-range visibility, parachute red flares for long-range,… (5) — FLARE
      3. A pivoting keel that can be raised into a trunk to reduce draft and lowered to resist leeway (11) — CENTERBOARD
      4. 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
      5. To sail close to the wind (5) — POINT
      6. A permanent ground tackle — anchor, chain, and buoy — to which a vessel can secure instead of deploying her own anchor (7) — MOORING
      7. See jibe — a turn in which the stern passes through the wind (4) — GYBE

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      1. A short-lived increase in wind strength (4) — PUFF
      2. The floor of a cockpit or cabin (4) — SOLE
      3. The condition of a vessel whose keel or hull is in contact with the seabed (7) — AGROUND
      4. The ratio between the length of anchor rode paid out and the depth of water (plus bow height), e (5) — SCOPE
      5. A microwave ranging system that bounces a rotating pulse off targets and displays their bearing and range; modern broadb… (5) — RADAR
      6. The right side of the boat when facing forward (9) — STARBOARD
      7. A raised lip around the edge of the cockpit or a hatch, designed to keep out water (7) — COAMING
      8. In the IALA Region B system, a red even-numbered conical buoy marking the starboard side of a channel when entering from… (3) — NUN

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