Answer: CAPSTAN
The answer CAPSTAN has 75 possible clues. See the results below.
Possible Clues:
- Rope-winding device
- Device with a rotating drum used for hauling in 43Ds
- Constant pants moving around a windlass
- Beats initially typifying any naval sailor’s drum given a turn?
- Revolving spindle on a tape recorder
- Turner does better than Brown
- Skipper goes round southern island missing bit of ship's apparatus
- Rotating part of a tape recorder
- Winder-up to do better than small boy
- With which one leaves skipper hauling in last of ropes?
Last seen in:
- The Times - Concise - Times Concise No 9491
- The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 29,192 - Oct 4 2023
- The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 30,134 - Nov 2 2022
- The Guardian - Quick crossword No 16,367 - Oct 21 2022
- The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 2249
- The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 704 - Apr 18 2022
- The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 306
- The Times - Concise - Times Concise No 8802
- The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 28170
- The Sun - Two Speed - May 1 2021