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21 / AUG / 2026 — archive puzzle. The world's first maritime-only crossword — 259-term nautical corpus.

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      You're looking at the 21 / AUG / 2026 daily maritime crossword — a free nautical puzzle drawn from our 259-term corpus of COLREGs rules, VHF radio procedure, navigation marks, rigging and seamanship vocabulary. Every daily puzzle is deterministic — players worldwide saw exactly the same grid on 21 / AUG / 2026, so your time and hint count still rank against the global leaderboard.

      If you solved this Friday grid, don't stop — 20 / AUG / 2026's puzzle is waiting with a fresh layout from the same nautical vocabulary. Warning: some clues lean on COLREGs Rule numbers and IALA buoyage — brush up if you're rusty.

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      Yesterday's clues & answers — 20 / AUG / 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. A floating aid to navigation, anchored in position to mark channels, dangers, or stations (4) — BUOY
      2. To hold, and keep tension on, the free end of a line while a winch grinder takes turns on the drum (4) — TAIL
      3. A two- or three-hook safety line attaching a crew member's lifejacket/harness to a jackline or strongpoint, preventing s… (6) — TETHER
      4. A pivoting keel that can be raised into a trunk to reduce draft and lowered to resist leeway (11) — CENTERBOARD
      5. A permanent ground tackle — anchor, chain, and buoy — to which a vessel can secure instead of deploying her own anchor (7) — MOORING
      6. Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon — a self-contained 406 MHz satellite distress beacon registered to the vessel… (5) — EPIRB
      7. A reverse-osmosis desalinator that forces seawater through a semi-permeable membrane at high pressure to produce drinkin… (10) — WATERMAKER

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      1. The pin of a rudder fitting that drops into a gudgeon on the transom, allowing the rudder to swing freely (6) — PINTLE
      2. The lower edge of a sail (4) — FOOT
      3. The lowest internal part of the hull, where water inevitably drains and collects (5) — BILGE
      4. The sideways slippage of the hull to leeward caused by the sail's horizontal force component (6) — LEEWAY
      5. The periodic vertical rise and fall of the sea surface caused by the gravitational pull of the Moon and Sun (4) — TIDE
      6. A fabric and framework spray hood forward of the cockpit that shelters the crew from wind and spray (6) — DODGER
      7. A point of sail with the wind coming from dead astern (3) — RUN
      8. The whole line-and-chain assembly linking the anchor to the boat (4) — RODE

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