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23 / 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 — 22 / JUN / 2026

      Newspaper-style: today's page publishes the full solution to Monday's puzzle (15 maritime terms). Today's answers stay hidden until tomorrow — play the grid above, or replay Monday's grid.

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      1. Any sail set forward of the mast — jib, genoa, staysail, or code zero — typically attached to the forestay (8) — HEADSAIL
      2. A small, heavy, triangular storm sail that replaces the mainsail on its own track or separate track in survival conditio… (7) — TRYSAIL
      3. A pyrotechnic distress signal — handheld red flares are for close-range visibility, parachute red flares for long-range,… (5) — FLARE
      4. A pivoting keel that can be raised into a trunk to reduce draft and lowered to resist leeway (11) — CENTERBOARD
      5. A small reinforcing plate built into the head of a sail to spread halyard load (9) — HEADBOARD
      6. A stainless-steel safety rail around the bow (or stern, where it is usually called a pushpit) (6) — PULPIT

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      1. The direction (usually in degrees true) in which a current flows (3) — SET
      2. To bind or secure with line or webbing (4) — LASH
      3. A line used to hoist, hold up, or lower a sail (7) — HALYARD
      4. Toward, at, or behind the stern (3) — AFT
      5. 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
      6. Of wind: a clockwise shift in direction (opposite of 'back') (4) — VEER
      7. (Also 'gybe') To change tack by turning the stern through the wind, allowing the mainsail and boom to swing across (4) — JIBE
      8. A position — latitude and longitude — stored in a GPS or chartplotter and used as a step in a planned route (8) — WAYPOINT
      9. The mostly horizontal upper surface of the hull (4) — DECK

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