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⚓ Daily Maritime Crossword

23 / 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 — 22 / MAY / 2026

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

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      1. The floor of a cockpit or cabin (4) — SOLE
      2. Any pole that supports a sail — mast, boom, gaff, sprit, yard, whisker pole, or spinnaker pole (4) — SPAR
      3. A pivoting keel that can be raised into a trunk to reduce draft and lowered to resist leeway (11) — CENTERBOARD
      4. A permanent joining of two ropes, or a rope's end into itself, by interweaving the strands (6) — SPLICE
      5. Secured — held in place, tied off (4) — FAST
      6. A large headsail whose clew overlaps the mast, giving extra upwind drive compared with a working jib (5) — GENOA
      7. The enclosed interior accommodation of the vessel (5) — CABIN
      8. A stainless-steel safety rail around the bow (or stern, where it is usually called a pushpit) (6) — PULPIT

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      1. Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon — a self-contained 406 MHz satellite distress beacon registered to the vessel… (5) — EPIRB
      2. A fast-moving, short-lived storm cell producing sudden strong winds and often heavy rain (6) — SQUALL
      3. The crew member steering the boat at a given moment (8) — HELMSMAN
      4. The distance of open water, to windward, over which the wind has blown — the longer the fetch, the larger the waves (5) — FETCH
      5. A short-lived increase in wind strength (4) — PUFF
      6. A nautical map showing coastlines, depths, aids to navigation, and hazards (5) — CHART
      7. Automatic Identification System — a VHF-based transponder network that continuously broadcasts a vessel's identity, posi… (3) — AIS

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