AFLOAT logoAfloat Xword 67

  Compiled by John Gray

AFLOAT Crossword 67 GridAthwart

  1 Upset glands on this pompous fool with a timepiece which measures time by the use of running sand (9)
  6 In days of sail the name given to a ship’s member who did not stand normal watches – cooks etc. (5)
  9 An Arctic gull who attacks other seabirds – he sounds all tuckered out (5)
  10 Wronged to give grade negligently (9)
  11 A long Scandinavian galley or longship, oars or sail used as a warship with 20 to 30 oarsmen (7)
  12 A river flowing in the underworld – hence hell with a current and a sail boat (7)
  13 Rubber fittings at deck level around the bases of keelstepped masts (4,5).
  16 A large flat-bottomed boat somehow for cows (4)
  18 Indentations of a shoreline larger than coves but smaller than gulfs, the hound dog does it (4)
  19 The most necessary fluid in a compass bowl in Australian waters is what type of water? (9)
  22 A ‘class’ of sailing boats, as which compete in the Sail Melbourne International Regatta (7)
  24 Moves, as a ship, from its normal mooring area (7)
  26 A type of craft lifted clear of the water at high speed by planing (9)
  27 In, not in, imagine the apparent reproduction formed in a telescope (5)
  28 Immediately after a cold front has passed the winds are gusty and the barometric pressure . . . . . ? (5)
  29 A boat rope or cable terminal that is devoid of fittings (9)

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  1 Half an edge in a lopsided seesaw for kelps, dulces or sea lettuces (8)
  2 A high strength synthetic fibre used in rope-making (5)
  3 Small casks used for watering in ships’ boats (4,5)
  4 Name given An American Confederate cruiser, a threemasted schooner with auxilliary steam power (7)
  5 Is slang the proper way for communications for ships at sea other than by word of mouth or message by boats (7)
  6 If you are a Celt you may talk with this accent (5)
  7 One of the greatest seaports of Britain, on the coast of Lancashire at the mouth of the River Mersey (9)
  8 Name given a ‘turn’, when the coils of a sheet on the barrel of a winch become crossed (6)
  14 One of two navigational hazards in the straits of Messina that Ulysses passed after capturing Troy (9)
  15 Acronym signifying Landing Craft for the Infantry (3)
  16 The name given to the auxiliary engine found on a sailing vessel, usually fitted with a folding propeller (4,5)
  17 In Greek legend the king of Ithica, hero of the Odyssey (8)
  19 Those woven synthetic flaxes, cloth (duradons), used in sail making (7)
  20 Stomatopod or kind of mantis shrimp, all up to a squid almost (7)
  21 A ‘coracle’, shaped like a cauldron, made of dried weeds, coated with bitumen, from the River Tigris, and in the lawn? (6)
  23 Makes a plan or chart of a yacht’s course in the cemetery (5)
  25 A chef blending this way, will rub and wear as a sail might (5)
 Answers to Xword 67 on page 82.