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Afloat Xword 80

Compiled by John Gray

Afloat Crossword 80Athwart

    5   Term for the upper parts of the mouths of trouts, which house their short, sharp, teeth – it turns out there’s no regard for these removers  (6)
  8   Where the archer’s string is, bearing midway between ahead and abeam  (2,3,3)
  9   Lengths of wire ropes or chains secured at both ends of spars, to the bight, to which purchases may be ‘hooked on’  (7)
 10   Sailor’s slang term for salted beef issued as food when at sea  (4,4)
 11   Name frequently used to describe the cookhouse on small vessels, like a sentry box on deck (7)
 12   The  ‘disc’ or template used by observers of the Sun, used to find the heliographic latitude and longitude of features on the solar surface – turning up nosy truths  (10)
 14   Little drink for one who is in the ship’s poop initially  (3)
 15   The hospital or doctor’s quarters in a ship  (4,3)
 18   Maritime term for the rope that prevents a towline from running abeam of the tug  (3,4)
 20   Acronym for a Senior Naval Officer  (3)
 23   The gas surrounding a celestial object  (10)
 25   What a Greek or Roman galley’s ‘yard’ was known as – it can also receive signals  (7)
 26   A flag, national ensign or banner flown from a mast  (8)
 27   One of a pair of flat hooks, joined with a chain, and used to haul casks on board  (7)
 28   A satellite of Saturn, discovered 1848 by W. C. Bond, size 350 x 200 km, may be a remnant of a larger shattered body  (8)
 29   The fourth state of matter, all the matter in the interior of stars is considered to be in this ‘state’  (6)

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  1   Lowers or lets go suddenly – or puts out a light  (6)
  2   Name given the ‘Fire’ – a brush-like electric discharge at the masthead and yardarms of a ship  (2,5)
  3   Small competitive sailers popular with learners  (7)
  4   To turn a yacht up toward the wind – generally a large angle of change  (5,2).
  5   Term for the angles between true norths and magnetic norths  (10)
  6   Maritime slang word to describe anchors  (3,5)
  7   That part of a fishing rod on which the reel is placed  (4,4)
 11   Initially this is a Cunard Steam Ship  (3)
 13   The old name by which Haiti was known, originally named by Columbus  (10)
 16   A control line at the tack of a sail that tightens the luff – also a line to pull down the main boom on its gooseneck slide  (8)
 17   Those parts of blocks opposite their swallows – is also a lifesaving buoy  (8)
 19   Estimated Time of Arrival back in time possibly to eat?  (3)
 20   Sailing term for an eye splice without a thimble  (4,3)
 21   This is the best place to make use of your boat’s autopilot  (4,3)
 22   The insoluble pigment that accounts for the colour of e.g. skin and scales in fishes  (7)
 24   The final termination?  (6)

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