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High or low adjustment to diet (4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

tide

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'high or low' is the definition.
I can't tell whether this defines the answer.

'adjustment to diet' is the wordplay.
'adjustment to' indicates an anagram.
'diet' is an anagram of 'TIDE'.

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(Other definitions for tide that I've seen before include "(With time) it waits for no man" , "Time and it wait for no man" , "Periodic water movement" , "Sea's ebb and flow" , "Powerful surge" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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