Rising and falling
The crossword clue "Rising and falling" is answered by TIDAL, a 5-letter entry. Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2020; first recorded in 1964. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
TIDAL
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the TIDAL answer page.
Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2020; first recorded in 1964. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for TIDAL
Every other clue in this collection answered by TIDAL, most used first.
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- __ pool - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
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