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⚓ Daily Maritime Crossword

31 / 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 — 30 / MAY / 2026

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

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      1. The fore-and-aft tilt of the mast relative to vertical (4) — RAKE
      2. In the water behind the vessel, or moving backwards (6) — ASTERN
      3. A pyrotechnic distress signal — handheld red flares are for close-range visibility, parachute red flares for long-range,… (5) — FLARE
      4. Multi-Function Display — a large chartplotter screen able to show radar, AIS, sonar, engine data, camera feeds, and char… (3) — MFD
      5. A pivoting keel that can be raised into a trunk to reduce draft and lowered to resist leeway (11) — CENTERBOARD
      6. The floor of a cockpit or cabin (4) — SOLE
      7. The forwardmost structural member of the hull — the bow's leading edge (4) — STEM
      8. A ring-shaped fitting on the transom into which a rudder's pintle pin drops, allowing the rudder to swing (7) — GUDGEON

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      1. A short-lived increase in wind strength (4) — PUFF
      2. The condition of a vessel whose keel or hull is in contact with the seabed (7) — AGROUND
      3. A three-hulled vessel: a central hull (vaka) flanked by two amas (8) — TRIMARAN
      4. The vertical distance from the waterline to the deck edge (9) — FREEBOARD
      5. A floating aid to navigation, anchored in position to mark channels, dangers, or stations (4) — BUOY
      6. A deck fitting — most commonly a horned or jam cleat — designed to hold a line under load (5) — CLEAT
      7. 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.