The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word TIDES
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More clues leading to the result TIDES
- More than one current change, that is, ending on top
- A coastal feature sited inappropriately
- Rising deposit men dredged in coastal waters
- Changes in level, i.e. bottom to top
- Head of security to check back for trends
- Comings and goings of couples adopting daughter
- Raising small change gives rises in liquidity?
- ID subsumed by rising group trends
- Floods in Somerset I’d escaped
- Fashionable diets which change with the times
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The straight part
We know that "A coastal feature" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case a coastal feature = tides.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does TIDES mean?
TIDES noun- The periodic change of the sea level, particularly when caused by the gravitational influence of the sun and the moon.
- A stream, current or flood.
- (chronology, except in liturgy) Time, notably anniversary, period or season linked to an ecclesiastical feast.
- A time.
- A point or period of time identified or described by a qualifier (found in compounds).
- The period of twelve hours.
- Something which changes like the tides of the sea.
- Tendency or direction of causes, influences, or events; course; current.
- Violent confluence
- To cause to float with the tide; to drive or carry with the tide or stream.
- To pour a tide or flood.
- To work into or out of a river or harbor by drifting with the tide and anchoring when it becomes adverse.
- To happen, occur.