Richard Hubbell

Regarding Sam Corbin’s help with 30 across in the October 5 puzzle, I note that she said one would need to be familiar with certain boating terms. The answer uses the term crew team, which, unfortunately, is a redundant and wrong term for the rowers in a shell. The rowers are simply the crew, just as all the people who operate a ship or boat are referred to as the crew. The sport is called “crew”, which confuses the situation and probably leads to people calling members participating a team (as it pretty much every other sport), but properly speaking the rowers are simply “the crew”