WEEKLY CROSSWORD

Across

1 A catfish has none (6) 5 Sort of baits for surface fishing (8) 9/20 Source of electric power (*unwind Tiber!) (4,7) 10 Reef material (5) 11/28 Fictional white whale (4,4) 12 Hard to grip, like an eel (8) 14 Dilip __, MBE, specialist angler (6) 15 Burns with boiling water (6) 17 Period without little/no rain (3,5) 19 Sub-surface counter current (8) 21 Berthing area for boats (6) 22 Fish with stinging spines – in Crewe everywhere (6) 24 Hook with no eye (5-3) 26 Thameside public school (4) 27 Adult insect – in arapaima, goodness! (5) 28 See 11 29 __ Lake in Notts., gin-clear carp water (*worm cell) (8) 30 Uses a riddle (6)

Down

2 Make cool ... endless spicy pepper! (5) 3 Lincs. river – a bit secluded (3) 4 Sticky bits of cuttlefish ‘arms’ (7) 5/21 Cambs. fishery by the Nene (*feed Ray worms!) (5,7) 6 Arthur, angling author/ broadcaster (*blog, yes) (7) 7 River of SW England in delta, Margate! (5) 8 Legendary carper/angling author (*mainly, bro) (3,6) 13 Heart throb seed bait! (5) 16 e.g. stonfo (9) 17 Early morning damp – in bankside, Weymouth (3) 18 Dogfish egg case: mermaid’s ___ (5) 20 See 9 Across 21 See 5 23 Poison e.g. in stingray’s spine (5) 24 Like gobies, size-wise (5) 25 Mother-of-pearl in Gowna creek (5) 28 Llangollen is on this river (3)