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Arcane Nautical Lexicon of Mariners
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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  • 1. Timber jutting forward, anchoring foresails and rigging
  • 2. List assigning crew shifts, a captain’s routine decree
  • 3. Inexperienced seaman, often mocked for landlocked clumsiness
  • 4. Conical tool for splicing rope, not a dental implement
  • 5. Sieve-like skylight, strains water and breeze below deck
  • 8. Ship’s ladder made from rope, aids ascension aloft
  • 9. Small ribbon indicating wind direction aloft on yardarms
  • 11. Drainage holes letting deck water flow to the sea
  • 15. Highest sail, flirting with clouds over royal sails
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  • 6. Fancy rope coil, tidy as a northern European weave
  • 7. Unpleasant liquid pooling beneath decks, often malodorous
  • 10. Thick-eyed blocks used with lanyards to tighten shrouds
  • 12. Aftmost sail on schooner, sometimes called driver
  • 13. Top edge of a ship’s side, where sailors lean or fall
  • 14. Rotating drum to wind heavy ropes or cables on deck
  • 16. Ring and tackle securing yard to mast, essential pivot
  • 17. Posts aboard for mooring lines, stubborn and stout
  • 18. Ropes supporting masts sideways, skeleton of the rigging
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