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

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      You're looking at the 27 / SEP / 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 27 / SEP / 2026, so your time and hint count still rank against the global leaderboard.

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      Yesterday's clues & answers — 26 / SEP / 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. The underwater surface of the hull (6) — BOTTOM
      2. The main body of the vessel, excluding the rig, spars, sails, and appendages (4) — HULL
      3. In the water behind the vessel, or moving backwards (6) — ASTERN
      4. A pivoting keel that can be raised into a trunk to reduce draft and lowered to resist leeway (11) — CENTERBOARD
      5. The marine term for a pulley — a sheave in a housing through which a line runs (5) — BLOCK
      6. Automatic Identification System — a VHF-based transponder network that continuously broadcasts a vessel's identity, posi… (3) — AIS
      7. A microwave ranging system that bounces a rotating pulse off targets and displays their bearing and range; modern broadb… (5) — RADAR
      8. A legacy unit of depth equal to six feet (1 (6) — FATHOM

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      1. To interpose a sail or other object between the wind and another sail so the downwind sail is starved of breeze (7) — BLANKET
      2. An arrangement of blocks and line that provides mechanical advantage (6) — TACKLE
      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 spar extending forward of the stem (often retractable on modern cruisers) to which an asymmetric spinnaker, code zero,… (8) — BOWSPRIT
      5. A point of sail with the wind forward of, abeam, or aft of the beam but not dead astern — close, beam, or broad reach (5) — REACH
      6. The direction (usually in degrees true) in which a current flows (3) — SET
      7. To sail a course that will clear a mark or obstacle without an additional tack (3) — LAY

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