SCUBA Crossword Prize

Please print out and fill in your completed crossword, then scan the print( or take a good quality telephone photo) of the completed puzzle and email to simon @ scubamagazine. co. uk Make sure you include which month of SCUBA the crossword appeared in, your full name, email address and a contact number. One winner will be selected at random and will receive a prize of £ 50.

NUMBER 66 – JUL-AUG 2026

ACROSS

1 Resting place for the other 1( 3,3)

4 Sam and Nat join up to discover these swimmers in 1 across perhaps( 6)

7 Make a cup of this from SCUBA contributor( 3)

NUMBER 65- JUNE 2026 ANSWERS

L I F E B O A T V N R H E L I U M

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R A B R I S T 0 L S T A R T U O D W H O O D R I I I C E Y T A Y V M N M A K O E V S N R A F T S E X H A U S T N A S O A M A R I N A T A R P O N D G

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8 Beginning of large fish leading in Sudan’ s Upper Nile( 3)

9 In a biryani you will find a nautical body( 3 init.)

10 Old sports car, sharp tool and former Queen make up fishing boat( 7)

12 Movement in Nile for item used in 10( 4)

13 Sounds of a wailing captain by Melville!( 4)

14 E. g. Peter is only half in distress( 3)

15 Tide dispenses when Simon and Kristina do this( 4)

16 Mission accomplished partly in locating Hebridean island( 4)

17 Wot?! Goes back to do it with a body in early BSAC training( 3)

19 Where you might embark to reach 16( 4)

20 Salvaged from HMS Edinburgh it’ s in Paul’ s heart.……( 4)

21 ……. and failing 20, wreck divers would still be happy to collect a bag of these( 7)

22 Lead without a key feature of some dive torches( 3 init.)

24 A partial capsize holds old bars( 3 init.)

25 Search the seashore for wood( 3)

26 Angers when disturbed to produce tidal features( 6)

27 Charlie leaves clutter and makes a nice green one for example( 6)

DOWN

1 Roll a sore lime wrecked in the other 1( 7,6)

2 A noisy fitting ……( 3)

3 …… and an alternative to 2( 1-5)

4 Romeo in Area from Scotland to Ireland finds big-game creature( 6)

5 Backward vermin turns in to sailor( 3)

6 Location on ship can create broad disaster( 9,4)

10 Bottles need this from time to time( just like school kids!)( 7)

11 Sing with 5 to find ordinary sailors( 7)

17 Reef with connections to 1 across having other connections to Dylan or Telford?( 6)

18 Harness to stay put it’ s heard( 6)

23 Comically he’ s desperate for a safety organisation( 3 init.)

24 It’ s presumably all gone to this when a diver has to go in it!( 3)