⚓ Daily Maritime Crossword

06 / JUN / 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 — 05 / JUN / 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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The vertical spar — originally timber, today commonly aluminium or carbon — from which the mainsail is hoisted (4) — MAST
The lower edge of a sail (4) — FOOT
In the IALA Region B buoyage system (USA, parts of the Americas, Japan, Korea, Philippines), an odd-numbered green cylin… (3) — CAN
To route a line through a block, fairlead, or similar fitting (4) — LEAD
To remove water from inside the vessel, traditionally with a bucket or scoop (4) — BAIL
A pivoting keel that can be raised into a trunk to reduce draft and lowered to resist leeway (11) — CENTERBOARD
The disturbed water and trailing waves left behind a moving vessel (4) — WAKE
The marine term for a pulley — a sheave in a housing through which a line runs (5) — BLOCK

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The outer sides of the hull between the waterline and the deck (8) — TOPSIDES
An electronic device that converts the boat's 12/24 V DC supply into 120/230 V AC mains for running domestic appliances… (8) — INVERTER
The upper corner of a sail; also, the marine toilet (4) — HEAD
A vessel filled with water but still floating (7) — SWAMPED
A fabric and framework spray hood forward of the cockpit that shelters the crew from wind and spray (6) — DODGER
To turn the bow through the eye of the wind so the boat changes from one close-hauled course to the other (4) — TACK
The steering control — tiller or wheel (4) — HELM

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