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⚓ Daily Maritime Crossword

03 / JUL / 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 — 02 / JUL / 2026

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

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      1. The lower edge of a sail (4) — FOOT
      2. The left side of the boat when facing forward (4) — PORT
      3. In the IALA Region B system, a red even-numbered conical buoy marking the starboard side of a channel when entering from… (3) — NUN
      4. A pivoting keel that can be raised into a trunk to reduce draft and lowered to resist leeway (11) — CENTERBOARD
      5. To tip a vessel so far that it rolls over onto its side or beyond (7) — CAPSIZE
      6. The line of sight formed when two marks ashore line up, showing the centre of a channel or a transit bearing (5) — RANGE
      7. The aerodynamic or hydrodynamic force generated by a sail or keel that drives the boat through the water (4) — LIFT

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      1. The enclosed interior accommodation of the vessel (5) — CABIN
      2. The vertical spar — originally timber, today commonly aluminium or carbon — from which the mainsail is hoisted (4) — MAST
      3. An inflated plastic or rubber buffer hung over the side to protect the hull when alongside a dock or another vessel (6) — FENDER
      4. Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon — a self-contained 406 MHz satellite distress beacon registered to the vessel… (5) — EPIRB
      5. An electronic self-steering system that uses a heading or GPS input to drive a hydraulic ram, linear drive, or wheel mot… (9) — AUTOPILOT
      6. The centre portion of a navigable channel (7) — FAIRWAY
      7. The steering control — tiller or wheel (4) — HELM
      8. The weighted vertical fin beneath the hull that resists leeway and, through its ballast, keeps the boat upright; modern… (4) — KEEL

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