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⚓ Daily Maritime Crossword

07 / 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 — 06 / JUN / 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 angular direction of one object from another, expressed in compass degrees (7) — BEARING
      2. The disturbed water and trailing waves left behind a moving vessel (4) — WAKE
      3. The forwardmost structural member of the hull — the bow's leading edge (4) — STEM
      4. A pivoting keel that can be raised into a trunk to reduce draft and lowered to resist leeway (11) — CENTERBOARD
      5. A quay, pontoon, or berth where a vessel ties up — and also the act of bringing her alongside (4) — DOCK
      6. The wires (standing rigging) and lines (running rigging) supporting and controlling the spars and sails (7) — RIGGING

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      1. The greatest width of the vessel measured at its widest point (4) — BEAM
      2. Global Navigation Satellite System — the umbrella term covering all satellite positioning constellations: GPS (USA), GLO… (4) — GNSS
      3. Vertical metal posts bolted to the deck edge that support the lifelines (10) — STANCHIONS
      4. A large, light downwind sail, symmetric or asymmetric, flown from a halyard rather than a stay and used on broad reaches and runs (9) — SPINNAKER
      5. The grooved wheel inside a block or at the head of a mast over which a line runs (6) — SHEAVE
      6. The enclosed interior accommodation of the vessel (5) — CABIN
      7. Electronic Chart Display and Information System — a type-approved electronic charting system accepted as the primary mea… (5) — ECDIS
      8. A two-masted rig whose shorter mizzen mast stands forward of the rudder post and is shorter than the main mast (5) — KETCH
      9. See boom vang — the tackle or rigid strut that pulls the boom down to control mainsail twist (4) — VANG

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