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21 / 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 — 20 / JUL / 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. Length Waterline — the fore-and-aft length of the hull measured at the waterline; a major factor in hull speed (3) — LWL
      2. A pivoting keel that can be raised into a trunk to reduce draft and lowered to resist leeway (11) — CENTERBOARD
      3. A short-lived dip in wind speed (4) — LULL
      4. A fabric and framework spray hood forward of the cockpit that shelters the crew from wind and spray (6) — DODGER
      5. Global Positioning System — the US satellite constellation whose signals let a receiver compute its position, heading, a… (3) — GPS
      6. The curved extension of a sail's area aft of a straight line drawn from head to clew (5) — ROACH

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      1. An aramid fibre used in high-performance laminate sails and safety gear; it is strong and resists stretch, but degrades with UV exposure (6) — KEVLAR
      2. A buoyant horseshoe-shaped sling on a floating line, deployed to trail astern during a man-overboard recovery so the cas… (9) — LIFESLING
      3. Standing rigging running from the bow (or stemhead) up to the mast, to which the foresail is hanked or furled (8) — FORESTAY
      4. Outside the rail, or toward or beyond the sides of the boat (8) — OUTBOARD
      5. The vertical distance from the waterline to the deepest part of the keel — the minimum water depth the vessel needs to float (5) — DRAFT
      6. A tapered hardwood or metal spike used to open the strands of a rope when splicing (3) — FID
      7. A single-masted rig with a mainsail and a single headsail — the commonest modern configuration (5) — SLOOP
      8. A nautical map showing coastlines, depths, aids to navigation, and hazards (5) — CHART
      9. Digital Selective Calling — a feature of modern VHF and SSB radios that allows a pre-formatted digital distress alert, i… (3) — DSC

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