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⚓ Daily Maritime Crossword

19 / OCT / 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 — 18 / OCT / 2026

      Newspaper-style: today's page publishes the full solution to Sunday's puzzle (14 maritime terms). Today's answers stay hidden until tomorrow — play the grid above, or replay Sunday's grid.

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      1. The small triangular headsail set forward of the mast, tacked to the stemhead and hanked, bolted, or furled onto the forestay (3) — JIB
      2. To adjust a sail's controls to produce optimum drive and lift (4) — TRIM
      3. A pivoting keel that can be raised into a trunk to reduce draft and lowered to resist leeway (11) — CENTERBOARD
      4. A reinforced ring — usually brass or stainless — set into a sail or cover to accept a line or fastening (7) — GROMMET
      5. The outgoing phase of the tide, when water level is falling and the flow runs seaward (3) — EBB
      6. A line used to hoist, hold up, or lower a sail (7) — HALYARD
      7. An electronic display that overlays the vessel's GPS position on digital charts, and often integrates AIS, radar, sonar,… (12) — CHARTPLOTTER

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      1. 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
      2. A spar extending forward of the stem (often retractable on modern cruisers) to which an asymmetric spinnaker, code zero,… (8) — BOWSPRIT
      3. The lowest internal part of the hull, where water inevitably drains and collects (5) — BILGE
      4. The direction, expressed in degrees, in which the vessel is being steered (6) — COURSE
      5. The marine term for a pulley — a sheave in a housing through which a line runs (5) — BLOCK
      6. A sail that has been trimmed so the wind pushes against the reverse side of the cloth, filling it from behind (5) — ABACK
      7. 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

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