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⚓ Daily Maritime Crossword

21 / 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 — 20 / 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. The stairway or ladder leading from the cockpit or deck down into the cabin (12) — COMPANIONWAY
      2. Toward, at, or behind the stern (3) — AFT
      3. A pivoting keel that can be raised into a trunk to reduce draft and lowered to resist leeway (11) — CENTERBOARD
      4. To interpose a sail or other object between the wind and another sail so the downwind sail is starved of breeze (7) — BLANKET
      5. The mostly horizontal upper surface of the hull (4) — DECK
      6. The forwardmost structural member of the hull — the bow's leading edge (4) — STEM
      7. Short, steep, broken waves — typically caused by wind over a shallow or restricted fetch (4) — CHOP

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      1. A tapered hardwood or metal spike used to open the strands of a rope when splicing (3) — FID
      2. A stainless-steel safety rail around the bow (or stern, where it is usually called a pushpit) (6) — PULPIT
      3. Any pole that supports a sail — mast, boom, gaff, sprit, yard, whisker pole, or spinnaker pole (4) — SPAR
      4. An inflated plastic or rubber buffer hung over the side to protect the hull when alongside a dock or another vessel (6) — FENDER
      5. The side or direction away from the wind — where the wind is blowing toward (7) — LEEWARD
      6. The fitting (on deck or on the keel) into which the foot of the mast is stepped (8) — MASTSTEP
      7. To make fast — attaching a sail to a spar or stay, or tying a line to a sail (4) — BEND
      8. Multi-Function Display — a large chartplotter screen able to show radar, AIS, sonar, engine data, camera feeds, and char… (3) — MFD

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