WEEKLY CROSSWORD
Across
1/32 Holey, plastic bait container (*redneck feed lob) (5-3,6) 6 Salmon on first return from sea (*leg, sir?) (6) 9 World-record venue in Hungary, Euro ___ (4) 10 Whale food in Suffolk rills! (5) 11 Centrepin’s line holder (4) 12 e.g. fresh fish used as a lure (4,4) 14 Straight parts of hooks (6) 15 Made sound like a goose (6) 16 ____ lead, for long-range casting (8) 19/22 Hook/lead tip of main line (*mercantile talk) (8,6) 24 Roger ___, Angling Trust’s England Vet Champ 2015 (6) 27 Injected with air, as bait might be (6,2) 28 e.g. albacore or skipjack (4) 29 __ Mayo, winner of Mavers Pairs with Des Shipp (5) 31 Excursion, or stumble! (4) 32 See 1ac. 33 Small shark (*rods pug) (7)
Down
2 e.g. use blender to turn bait to mush (9) 3 Wooden huts at leisure complexes, etc (7) 4 River in surge, Skipton (3) 5 Went with river’s current (7) 6 Ian, world international sea angler (5) 7 Raindrop-shaped spinner blade (*aid Nina) (7) 8 Fixed with adhesive (5) 13 Warwickshire fishery, ____ Lakes (*a nerd!) (5) 17 Exercise for stomach muscles *is put out (3,2) 18 Dye (*uncool rig) (9) 20 Wild duck (7) 21 ____ floating plug for surface fish (7) 23 UK’s largest newt is the Great ____ (7) 25 Sharp ... bit of balsa cut endwise (5) 26 River of Germany (*sewer!) (5) 30 French water - in sea usually (3)