Martin
London
@Cody the tidal range between low tide and high tide is on a roughly 28 day pattern in sync with the moon. When it’s a small range those are neap tides and when larger, spring tides. Sometimes the moon and sun align in such a way to produce stronger or milder neaps and springs too, the largest range is called “highest astronomical tide” for example. Neap is an Anglo Saxon (I think) word meaning powerless, spring is from Middle English springen meaning grow, so it’s the same word as the season and the coil! I used to teach navigation, so I could go on for days. Maybe I’ll save it for a crossword theme.
Was on track for a record time, but got hung up on thinking of a dictionary as REFerence material, and not knowing my 1980s skaters too well. As ever, thank you for the puzzle!
@dlr Where I work we call it rubber ducking. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging</a>
@Grant by that logic, all racing cars are light.
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