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18 / 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 — 17 / JUN / 2026

      Newspaper-style: today's page publishes the full solution to Wednesday's puzzle (14 maritime terms). Today's answers stay hidden until tomorrow — play the grid above, or replay Wednesday's grid.

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      1. The taller (main) mast on a vessel with more than one mast (8) — MAINMAST
      2. A pivoting keel that can be raised into a trunk to reduce draft and lowered to resist leeway (11) — CENTERBOARD
      3. The enclosed interior accommodation of the vessel (5) — CABIN
      4. To let a sheet, halyard, or other line run out in a controlled manner (4) — EASE
      5. A sudden, unintended round-up into the wind, usually while running or reaching in strong breeze and waves (6) — BROACH
      6. A windshift in which the wind moves forward on the boat, forcing the helm to bear away or the sheets to be eased (6) — HEADED

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      1. To bind or secure with line or webbing (4) — LASH
      2. Digital Selective Calling — a feature of modern VHF and SSB radios that allows a pre-formatted digital distress alert, i… (3) — DSC
      3. Referring to the magnetic north pole rather than true geographic north (8) — MAGNETIC
      4. A multihull with two parallel hulls connected by a deck, bridgedeck, or trampoline (9) — CATAMARAN
      5. Search and Rescue Transponder — an emergency device that, when triggered by an X-band radar pulse, replies with a 12-dot… (4) — SART
      6. Multi-Function Display — a large chartplotter screen able to show radar, AIS, sonar, engine data, camera feeds, and char… (3) — MFD
      7. See forestay — the standing rigging from bow to masthead (8) — HEADSTAY
      8. Automatic Radar Plotting Aid — radar software that tracks targets automatically and computes CPA (closest point of appro… (4) — ARPA

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