⚓ Daily Maritime Crossword

28 / 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 — 27 / 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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United States Coast Guard — the US federal service responsible for maritime safety, security, and SAR (4) — USCG
Toward the wind's source (6) — UPWIND
A vessel filled with water but still floating (7) — SWAMPED
A pivoting keel that can be raised into a trunk to reduce draft and lowered to resist leeway (11) — CENTERBOARD
The vertical spar — originally timber, today commonly aluminium or carbon — from which the mainsail is hoisted (4) — MAST
See forestay — the standing rigging from bow to masthead (8) — HEADSTAY
Secured — held in place, tied off (4) — FAST

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A large headsail whose clew overlaps the mast, giving extra upwind drive compared with a working jib (5) — GENOA
The upper corner of a sail; also, the marine toilet (4) — HEAD
The grooved wheel inside a block or at the head of a mast over which a line runs (6) — SHEAVE
The left side of the boat when facing forward (4) — PORT
The curved extension of a sail's area aft of a straight line drawn from head to clew (5) — ROACH
Search and Rescue Transponder — an emergency device that, when triggered by an X-band radar pulse, replies with a 12-dot… (4) — SART
A piston or snap hook used to attach the luff of a foresail at intervals along the forestay (4) — HANK
A piece of standing rigging supporting a mast in the fore-and-aft direction (4) — STAY

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