Moderate difficulty suitable for most players
Cryptic Curiosities of Pirate Cant
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
- 1. Rotten hull water where scoundrels lurk
- 2. Fool's garment, insult veiled in pirate garb
- 3. Nautical measure or sly trickster aboard
- 5. Soft berth mockery among hardened seafarers
- 9. Sea anchor’s sly cousin to slow the chase
- 10. Auxiliary craft named for ancient rigging
- 11. Lookout’s perch, where secrets first unfold
- 13. Boarding’s violent embrace for plunder gain
- 15. Discipline’s cruel symphony on wooden decks
- 17. Drinking vessel or drunken mariner's bane
- 18. Small sail craft, swift and deceiving vessel
Down
- 4. Brutal punishment forcing a sea-bound crawl
- 6. Pirate jibe for pompous landlubber taste
- 7. Command throne atop the ship’s aft summit
- 8. Old-time term for a notorious slacker
- 12. Hidden passage to watery depths below
- 14. Rope of ascent or sail’s aerial controller
- 16. Rowed boat, a covert mariner’s passage
- 19. Deliberate sinking by malicious crew hands
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