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20 / 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 — 19 / 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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      1. A pyrotechnic distress signal — handheld red flares are for close-range visibility, parachute red flares for long-range,… (5) — FLARE
      2. The horizontal spar that extends aft from the mast and carries the foot of the mainsail (4) — BOOM
      3. The direction, expressed in degrees, in which the vessel is being steered (6) — COURSE
      4. A pivoting keel that can be raised into a trunk to reduce draft and lowered to resist leeway (11) — CENTERBOARD
      5. To lay a rope down in neat, uniform loops for storage, or the stored loops themselves (4) — COIL
      6. (Also 'gybe') To change tack by turning the stern through the wind, allowing the mainsail and boom to swing across (4) — JIBE
      7. To lead a line through a block, ring, or eye (5) — REEVE

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      1. To let a sheet, halyard, or other line run out in a controlled manner (4) — EASE
      2. A permanent ground tackle — anchor, chain, and buoy — to which a vessel can secure instead of deploying her own anchor (7) — MOORING
      3. Wear on a rope, sail, or sheet caused by repeated rubbing against another surface (5) — CHAFE
      4. A mooring line used to secure the vessel to a dock, pontoon, or piling (8) — DOCKLINE
      5. The small triangular headsail set forward of the mast, tacked to the stemhead and hanked, bolted, or furled onto the forestay (3) — JIB
      6. Multi-Function Display — a large chartplotter screen able to show radar, AIS, sonar, engine data, camera feeds, and char… (3) — MFD
      7. To remove water from inside the vessel, traditionally with a bucket or scoop (4) — BAIL
      8. The aft lower corner of a fore-and-aft sail; on a mainsail it is tensioned by the outhaul, on a jib by the sheets (4) — CLEW

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