| Sails force? |
Wall Street Journal |
06 Nov 2025 |
| Dark blue (4) |
The Guardian Quick |
15 Oct 2025 |
| Old ___, American clothing company owned by the clothing giant at 34a, and whose name is reminiscent of a military force |
|
|
| Seagoing force |
Commuter |
12 Sep 2025 |
| Dark blue |
Newsday |
11 Sep 2025 |
| Dark blue hue |
Universal |
30 Aug 2025 |
| Warships of a nation (4) |
Mirror Classic |
06 Aug 2025 |
| Dark blue |
Puzzler Backwords |
17 Jul 2025 |
| Labourer loses five ships (4) |
|
|
| Dark shade of blue |
The Times Concise |
20 Jun 2025 |
| "You're in the - Now" |
|
|
| Kind of blue |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
13 Jun 2025 |
| RCN, Royal Canadian ___ |
|
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| Marine blue? (4) |
|
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| Wartime comedy (McHale's ___-) |
|
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| Labourer losing centrepiece in shade of blue (4) |
|
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| a?¦ blue |
|
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| "McHale's ___" |
|
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| Blue or bean |
|
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| United States ___, maritime service branch that operates in the sea |
|
|
| Sailors in the shade |
|
|
| Ships have on-board satnav, yes? |
|
|
| Extremes of naked envy evident in admiral's command (4) |
|
|
| Blue hue |
Thomas Joseph |
01 May 2025 |
| Maritime force |
The Telegraph Quick |
30 Apr 2025 |
| Seafaring military force ... or a dark shade of 38a |
|
|
| Warships of a nation |
Mirror Classic |
27 Mar 2025 |
| Dark blue hue |
Universal |
14 Mar 2025 |
| Maritime force |
Newsday |
12 Mar 2025 |
| Seagoing fighting force |
Newsday |
04 Mar 2025 |
| Blue for boats? (4) |
|
|
| Blue colour (4) |
|
|
| Seagoing force |
The Times Concise |
25 Feb 2025 |
| Dark blue |
Puzzler Backwords |
17 Feb 2025 |
| Blue service (4) |
|
|
| Shade of blue |
Eugene Sheffer |
17 Feb 2025 |
| Marine defence force |
|
|
| Marine branch of a country's armed forces (4) |
|
|
| Military branch on "NCIS" |
|
|
| Classic peacoat color |
Universal |
16 Jan 2025 |
| Service vehicle pulled up on side of motorway |
The Times Cryptic |
10 Jan 2025 |
| Kind of blue |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
10 Jan 2025 |
| Maritime force |
Commuter |
04 Jan 2025 |
| Coastal border force (4) |
|
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| Water-based defence force (4) |
|
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| Seafaring military force |
|
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| Military force in the sea |
|
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| Fighting force afloat |
|
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| Marine force |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
19 Nov 2024 |
| A dark blue colour (4) |
|
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| Blue, like stilton supplied by Spooner (4) |
The Guardian Cryptic |
31 Oct 2024 |
| Alma mater of Hall of Famers Roger Staubach and David Robinson |
|
|
| In the ___-, 1979 Village People hit (4) |
|
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| Marine armed force |
The Sun Mini |
20 Oct 2024 |
| Centre piece for merchant blue? (4) |
|
|
| In The ___, 1979 hit for the Village People (4) |
|
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| Fleet |
LA Times Daily |
03 Oct 2024 |
| Force in royal blue? No, darker |
|
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| 17 Across |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
23 Sep 2024 |
| Blue fleet (4) |
|
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| Unknown vehicle goes back for a service (4) |
|
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| Many ships (five in any case?) (4) |
|
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| Ernest Borgnine starred in this comedy (McHale's ___-) |
|
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| Defence force vehicle returning to military base (4) |
|
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| Dark blue shade |
USA Today |
03 Sep 2024 |
| Shade of blue |
Eugene Sheffer |
03 Sep 2024 |
| Old ___, American clothing company owned by the clothing giant at 34a, and whose name is reminiscent of a military force |
|
|
| Force on the seas |
Commuter |
29 Aug 2024 |
| '60s sitcom "McHale's -" |
|
|
| Military branch with ships |
|
|
| Dark blue shade |
USA Today |
08 Aug 2024 |
| Military force on the open seas |
|
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| Armed sea force |
|
|
| Military blue |
|
|
| Shade of dark blue |
|
|
| Senior Service (4) |
Puzzler |
16 Jun 2024 |
| Warships of a nation |
Mirror Classic |
13 Jun 2024 |
| Dark blue |
Puzzler Backwords |
10 Jun 2024 |
| Seagoing force |
Commuter |
29 May 2024 |
| Vote against overrides introduction of vast fighting force |
|
|
| No, about five warships (4) |
|
|
| United States ___, maritime service branch that operates in the sea |
|
|
| Very dark blue |
|
|
| Marine armed force (4) |
Puzzler |
11 May 2024 |
| No holding five or many sailors (4) |
|
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| Dark blue commercial vehicle overturned on end of motorway |
|
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| Stated opposition about very small service |
|
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| Ride out of vineyard for the service (4) |
|
|
| Warships of a nation |
Mirror Classic |
19 Apr 2024 |
| Worker, one very absent, is kind of blue (4) |
|
|
| Warships collectively |
|
|
| A branch of the U.S. military |
Family Time |
08 Apr 2024 |
| Blue at always being at sea? (4) |
|
|
| Nautical fleet |
|
|
| Military force at sea |
|
|
| Sea force (4) |
|
|
| Suit fabric color |
Commuter |
04 Mar 2024 |
| 1979 Village People hit, In the ___- (4) |
|
|
| Marine branch of the armed forces (4) |
|
|
| Sea-going military force (4) |
|
|
| Sailing force |
|
|
| Shade of blue |
USA Today |
28 Jan 2024 |
| Labourer loses heart - being at sea with them? |
|
|
| Royal ___, armed force (4) |
|
|
| State's ships |
Mirror Classic |
13 Jan 2024 |
| Dark blue, as in the bright blue Iris '___ Brass' (4) |
|
|
| Military force in the sea |
|
|
| Senior Service |
Puzzler Backwords |
12 Dec 2023 |
| A branch of the armed services (4) |
|
|
| Nautical defense arm |
|
|
| Warships of a nation |
Mirror Classic |
02 Dec 2023 |
| Service van blown up by enemy's rearguard? (4) |
|
|
| Admiral's military branch |
|
|
| Blue vehicle reversing by yard (4) |
|
|
| Blue vehicle reversing by yard |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
22 Nov 2023 |
| Dark blue shade |
LA Times Daily |
21 Nov 2023 |
| Seafaring military force |
|
|
| Dark blue |
Eugene Sheffer |
15 Nov 2023 |
| Shade of blue |
Eugene Sheffer |
06 Nov 2023 |
| Military branch with ships |
|
|
| Warships |
The Telegraph Quick |
26 Aug 2023 |
| Seafaring military force |
|
|
| Shade of blue |
The Times Concise |
21 Jul 2023 |
| Word with bean or blue |
New York Times |
10 Jul 2023 |
| Dark blue shade |
USA Today |
29 Jun 2023 |
| Blue hue |
Thomas Joseph |
21 Jun 2023 |
| Blue vehicle turning round yard |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
19 May 2023 |
| Blue hue |
Family Time |
13 Mar 2023 |
| Military force |
The Telegraph Quick |
17 Feb 2023 |
| Sailor's employer |
Family Time |
22 Jan 2023 |
| Army's football rival |
New York Times |
09 Jan 2023 |
| Blue shade |
New York Times |
21 Dec 2022 |
| Military branch |
Family Time |
15 Aug 2022 |
| Sails force? |
Wall Street Journal |
13 Aug 2022 |
| Winner of a 2021 military football game |
Universal |
11 Jul 2022 |
| Marine force |
The Telegraph Quick |
11 Jun 2022 |
| Shade of blue that's also a military branch |
|
|
| "McHale's ___," war-based American sitcom that spawned three feature film spin-offs |
|
|
| Military force at sea |
|
|
| Maritime force, with 131 Across |
Newsday |
13 Mar 2022 |
| Military branch with admirals |
|
|
| Seamen like part of a church, we're told? |
|
|
| Fleet in point of fact welcoming sign of victory |
|
|
| Body of seamen lifted vehicle with Yankee |
The Times Cryptic |
31 Dec 2021 |
| Fleet |
The Telegraph Quick |
25 Dec 2021 |
| Dark blue shade |
Universal |
17 Dec 2021 |
| The Senior Service |
The Guardian Quick |
26 Nov 2021 |
| Kind of blue |
New York Times |
20 Nov 2021 |
| Seamen like part of a church, we're told? |
|
|
| Shade of blue |
LA Times Daily |
27 Oct 2021 |
| SEAL's group |
Premier Sunday |
03 Oct 2021 |
| Shade darker than royal blue |
USA Today |
27 Sep 2021 |
| Admiral's fighting force |
Newsday |
13 Sep 2021 |
| Vote against including Victory in the fleet |
|
|
| Dark shade of blue |
|
|
| Dark blue shade |
USA Today |
09 Aug 2021 |
| Admiral's fighting force |
Newsday |
26 Jul 2021 |
| Shade of blue |
USA Today |
15 Jul 2021 |
| Service vehicle going around yard |
|
|
| Fleet at sea |
|
|
| Seagoing military force |
Newsday |
31 May 2021 |
| Word before 'bean' or 'blue' |
USA Today |
27 Apr 2021 |
| Military force with warships |
|
|
| Dark blue |
Eugene Sheffer |
23 Apr 2021 |
| Shade of blue |
Eugene Sheffer |
10 Apr 2021 |
| Word before "blue" or "bean" |
Universal |
19 Mar 2021 |
| Admiral's group |
The Washington Post Sunday |
14 Feb 2021 |
| Dark blue shade |
LA Times Daily |
01 Feb 2021 |
| Dark blue shade |
The Washington Post |
01 Feb 2021 |
| Blue shade |
New York Times |
28 Jan 2021 |
| An armed force |
Canadiana |
25 Jan 2021 |
| Blue hue |
Newsday |
24 Dec 2020 |
| Dark blue |
Newsday |
01 Nov 2020 |
| Seafaring military force |
|
|
| Dark blue Bible displayed in major city |
|
|
| __ bean |
The Washington Post |
12 Aug 2020 |
| __ bean |
LA Times Daily |
12 Aug 2020 |
| Admiral's fighting force |
Newsday |
11 Aug 2020 |
| Deep blue |
LA Times Daily |
23 Jul 2020 |
| Deep blue |
The Washington Post |
23 Jul 2020 |
| Military branch with battleships |
Newsday |
14 Jul 2020 |
| Military force in the sea |
|
|
| Dark blue |
The Times Concise |
15 Mar 2020 |
| Dark blue |
The Telegraph Quick |
18 Dec 2019 |
| Blue shade |
|
|
| Conservative wardrobe shade |
Newsday |
23 Nov 2019 |
| Shade similar to indigo |
USA Today |
28 Oct 2019 |
| Blue Angels' branch |
USA Today |
27 Oct 2019 |
| Shade of blue |
New York Times |
18 Oct 2019 |
| Shade of blue |
|
|
| Word before blue or bean |
USA Today |
23 Aug 2019 |
| Colour; fighting force |
The Times Concise |
02 Aug 2019 |
| A dark shade of blue |
The Times Specialist Sunday |
21 Jul 2019 |
| Service digger wanting third |
|
|
| Service vehicle lifted onto end of jetty |
|
|
| Unknown vehicle's back for service |
|
|
| College football rival of 110-Across |
New York Times |
24 Mar 2019 |
| 10 Down's employer |
Newsday |
19 Mar 2019 |
| Dark shade of blue |
|
|
| Admiral's employer |
Newsday |
04 Mar 2019 |
| Shade of blue |
Wall Street Journal |
07 Jan 2019 |
| Shade of blue |
|
|
| Shade similar to indigo |
|
|
| College football rival of 110-Across |
|
|
| Blue Angels' branch |
|
|
| Word before blue or bean |
|
|
| Shade of blue |
The Telegraph Quick |
23 Dec 2018 |
| Unknown vehicle reversing is blue, close to Oxford |
|
|
| __ bean |
Newsday |
01 Sep 2018 |
| Branch of the military |
Family Time |
26 Aug 2018 |
| Labourer‘s only one against Kind of Blue? |
|
|
| Bean in baked beans |
USA Today |
29 May 2018 |
| Dark blue |
The Sun Two Speed |
07 Mar 2018 |
| No holding five sailors |
The Sun Two Speed |
07 Mar 2018 |
| Military branch with admirals |
|
|
| Service is dire coming out of vineyard |
Irish Times Crosaire |
09 Feb 2018 |
| Bean in baked beans |
|
|
| Seafaring military force |
|
|
| Military branch |
Canadiana |
18 Sep 2017 |
| Vehicle returns with Yankee marine force |
|
|
| Blue Angels service branch |
USA Today |
01 Aug 2017 |
| Force based on waves? |
Jonesin |
06 Jun 2017 |
| Against wearing any exotic shade |
The Times Cryptic |
01 Jun 2017 |
| Sailor's org |
Universal |
15 May 2017 |
| Vehicle returned before end of warranty for service |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
07 May 2017 |
| Fleet |
The Telegraph Quick |
22 Apr 2017 |
| [Military force] |
Wall Street Journal |
21 Mar 2017 |
| Seagoing force |
Newsday |
14 Feb 2017 |
| Dark blue vehicle reversing at back of alley |
|
|
| Blue Angels service branch |
|
|
| Sailor's org. |
|
|
| Refusal to accept very dark blue |
|
|
| Sailors certainly not travelling round Venice originally |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
24 Sep 2016 |
| With 65-Across, military specialist |
LA Times Daily |
30 Aug 2016 |
| SEALs' branch |
USA Today |
21 Aug 2016 |
| 54 Down group |
Newsday |
01 Aug 2016 |
| Blue hue |
USA Today |
24 Jul 2016 |
| SEALs' military branch |
USA Today |
17 Jul 2016 |
| Dark blue shade |
USA Today |
06 May 2016 |
| Team with a goat mascot |
USA Today |
06 Apr 2016 |
| Sailor's employer |
Family Time |
04 Apr 2016 |
| Petty officer's employer |
Wall Street Journal |
22 Mar 2016 |
| Almost black |
Eugene Sheffer |
09 Mar 2016 |
| Armed service |
The Sun Two Speed |
10 Feb 2016 |
| SEALs' branch |
|
|
| Blue hue |
|
|
| Dark blue shade |
|
|
| With 65-Across, military specialist |
|
|
| SEALs' military branch |
|
|
| Blue hue |
Thomas Joseph |
30 Dec 2015 |
| Shipping department? |
The Washington Post |
16 Nov 2015 |
| Blue shade |
Universal |
04 Aug 2015 |
| Tone reflects section of The Lady Vanishes |
|
|
| Shade of blue |
Newsday |
24 May 2015 |
| It's blue |
USA Today |
24 Jan 2015 |
| Shade of blue |
|
|
| Shipping department? |
|
|
| Blue shade |
|
|
| It's blue |
|
|
| The Midshipmen |
|
|
| Maritime military force |
|
|
| Blue shade |
|
|
| They "want you as a new recruit," sang the Village People |
|
|
| The Village People were "In" this |
|
|
| Shade of blue |
|
|
| Word with blue or bean |
|
|
| Commodore's branch of service |
|
|
| Blue color |
|
|
| Oldest British service branch |
|
|
| Pearl Harbor presence |
|
|
| Sub group |
|
|
| Old ___ |
|
|
| Pearl Harbor presence |
|
|
| Sub group |
|
|
| The blue of many blazers |
|
|
| Oldest British service branch |
|
|
| Word before blue or bean |
|
|
| It's darker than royal blue |
|
|
| Seagoing military force |
|
|
| Village People "In the ___" |
|
|
| Seagoing military force |
|
|
| It's darker than royal blue |
|
|
| The Midshipmen |
|
|
| Deep blue |
|
|
| Blue hue |
|
|
| Seagoing fighting force |
|
|
| Admiral's employer |
|
|
| Alma mater of football great Roger Staubach |
|
|
| Fighting force at the Battle of Midway |
|
|
| Deep blue |
|
|
| School whose 1910 football team went undefeated and unscored upon |
|
|
| Shade of blue |
|
|
| Dark shade of blue |
|
|
| Maritime force |
|
|
| Like many blazers |
|
|
| Blue hue |
|
|
| Sailor's outfit |
|
|
| Blue color |
|
|
| Armada |
|
|
| Dark blue |
|
|
| Sub group |
|
|
| Defense arm |
|
|
| Sox cap hue option |
|
|
| Team with a goat mascot |
|
|
| Dark blue |
|
|
| Sailor's outfit |
|
|
| Blue shade |
|
|
| SEALs' military branch |
|
|
| ___ bean soup |
|
|
| Unlikely asset for a landlocked nation |
|
|
| Admiral's service |
|
|
| Fleet runner |
|
|
| Sailor's employer, perhaps |
|
|
| Color similar to delft |
|
|
| Shade of blue |
|
|
| Armada |
|
|
| Armed Forces option |
|
|
| Fleet runner |
|
|
| Shade of blue |
|
|
| Sailor's employer |
|
|
| Blue hue |
|
|
| Blue shade |
|
|
| Admiral's service |
|
|
| Its mascot is a goat |
|
|
| Coast Guard ally |
|
|
| Annapolis athletes |
|
|
| Blue hue |
|
|
| Army rival |
|
|
| Army opponent |
|
|
| Armed forces option |
|
|
| Enlistee's choice |
|
|
| Admiral's service |
|
|
| Its mascot is a goat |
|
|
| Blue shade |
|
|
| Blue hue |
|
|
| Dark blue |
|
|
| Admiral's concern |
|
|
| Sailor's employer |
|
|
| The Midshipmen of college sports |
|
|
| Suit shade |
|
|
| Petty officer's group |
|
|
| Annapolis alum's employer |
|
|
| Flotilla |
|
|
| Sea power |
|
|
| Fleet folks |
|
|
| Business suit shade |
|
|
| Its mascot is a goat |
|
|
| Enlistee's choice |
|
|
| Dark shade |
|
|
| Fleet runner? |
|
|
| Dark blue |
|
|
| Blue hue |
|
|
| Fleet runner? |
|
|
| Dark blue |
|
|
| Blue shade |
|
|
| Blue hue |
|
|
| Army rival |
|
|
| Admiral's force |
|
|
| Dark, purplish blue |
|
|
| Blue hue |
|
|
| Commodore's branch of service |
|
|
| Blue hue |
|
|
| McHale's outfit |
|
|
| Deep blue shade |
|
|
| It's blue |
|
|
| One side of a football classic |
|
|
| Source of this puzzle's theme |
|
|
| _____ bean soup |
|
|
| Fleet |
|
|
| Body of seamen lifted vehicle with Yankee |
|
|
| It beat Army for its first and only victory of the season |
|
|
| Kind of bean |
|
|
| Shipping department? |
|
|
| Blue shade |
|
|
| Business suit shade |
|
|
| Shade of blue |
|
|
| The Midshipmen |
|
|
| With 36-Down, like some service uniforms |
|
|
| Armed Forces option |
|
|
| Dark blue |
|
|
| Blue hue |
|
|
| Kind of bean |
|
|
| USN word |
|
|
| Army competitor |
|
|
| Army's foe |
|
|
| Kind of blue |
|
|
| Defense arm |
|
|
| ___ blue |
|
|
| The Midshipmen |
|
|
| A shade of blue |
|
|
| Kind of bean or yard |
|
|
| Seabees' branch |
|
|
| Dark blue |
|
|
| Branch chosen by J.E.C. |
|
|
| Word with yard or blue |
|
|
| Branch chosen by J.F.K., G.R.F. and J.E.C. |
|
|
| Seagoing arm |
|
|
| Force afloat |
|
|
| Service branch |
|
|
| Warships |
|
|
| Carney's concern. |
|
|
| Secy. Thomas' area. |
|
|
| Blueprinter of "Operation Crossroads." |
|
|
| Secretary Matthews' department. |
|
|
| Defense group. |
|
|
| Part of Lovett's job. |
|
|
| Dan Kimball's responsibility. |
|
|
| Secy. Sullivan's charge. |
|
|
| Coach Erdelatz's eleven. |
|
|
| ___ yard. |
|
|
| Where John Paul Jones won fame. |
|
|
| Uncle Sam's powerful fighting arm. |
|
|
| Sec. Knox's responsibility. |
|
|
| Our first line of defense. |
|
|
| They're known for shipping |
|
|
| Dan Kimball's province. |
|
|
| It has a new mechanical brain. |
|
|
| Blue. |
|
|
| Kind of blue |
|
|
| Blue shade. |
|
|
| Shade of blue. |
|
|
| Nitze's concern. |
|
|
| Military force. |
|
|
| Color. |
|
|
| Annapolis. |
|
|
| Seabee's outfit. |
|
|
| Hyman Rickover's milieu. |
|
|
| Dark blue. |
|
|
| Cotton Bowl winner, 1958. |
|
|
| Popular color. |
|
|