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⚓ Daily Maritime Crossword

21 / 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 — 20 / 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. Sailing the boat entirely alone (12) — SINGLEHANDED
      2. Digital Selective Calling — a feature of modern VHF and SSB radios that allows a pre-formatted digital distress alert, i… (3) — DSC
      3. A fast-moving, short-lived storm cell producing sudden strong winds and often heavy rain (6) — SQUALL
      4. A pivoting keel that can be raised into a trunk to reduce draft and lowered to resist leeway (11) — CENTERBOARD
      5. An arrangement of blocks and line that provides mechanical advantage (6) — TACKLE
      6. A short-lived dip in wind speed (4) — LULL

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      1. A ring-shaped fitting on the transom into which a rudder's pintle pin drops, allowing the rudder to swing (7) — GUDGEON
      2. Toward, at, or behind the stern (3) — AFT
      3. A sudden, unintended round-up into the wind, usually while running or reaching in strong breeze and waves (6) — BROACH
      4. A proprietary symmetric downwind sail with a horizontal aerofoil slot through the middle, giving lift and stability and… (10) — PARASAILOR
      5. To throw — usually a line (5) — HEAVE
      6. A thin strip of timber, fibreglass, or carbon inserted into a pocket along the leech of a sail to maintain its aerodynamic shape (6) — BATTEN
      7. A piece of standing rigging supporting a mast in the fore-and-aft direction (4) — STAY
      8. A fixed vertical fin ahead of the rudder, protecting and supporting it (4) — SKEG
      9. 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.