WEEKLY CROSSWORD

Across

1 Mainly used with ‘shirt button’ or bulked shotting (5,5) 7 e.g. Kinder pots (4) 9 Fish used as lure (*add a bite!) (8) 10 Shrimp-like crustaceans (*NW spar) (6) 11 A driftbeater’s is long and slender (4) 13 Rome’s river (5) 14 Steve __. twice-winner of Mavers Pairs with Des Shipp (4) 15 Lead good for running rig (*part flea!) (4,4) 17 Connectors may be made from this (*Conrad) (6) 19 Lyme Bay straddles Devon and ___ (6) 21 Town on R. Calder, venue for start of RiverFest 2017 (8) 23/27 Bait of pulped oily seeds (4,5) 25 Scottish salmon river ... in Mexico? Nonsense! (5) 26 Drinks a little at a time (4) 28 Small leguminous seed (*ten ill) (6) 29 Gull-like birds (*armfuls!) (7) 31 Mark, ex-joint England manager with Mark Downes (4) 32 Chest-high trousers (*latest pose) (10)

Down

2 Twitter posting (5) 3 Food fish – cash on delivery? (3) 4 Nickname for fish with both eyes on one side (7) 5 Month of Preston Innovations festival (7) 6 Narrowed, like a dart float (7) 7 Crevasse – partly catch a smolt (5) 8 Location of Llandegfedd Reservoir (*pot polony) (9) 12 Night-flying fish food! (5) 16 Scattering of small baits thrown onto water (5,4) 18 They prevent droppers wrapping round leader (5) 20 Strokes a trout to catch it? (7) 21 Leaders / tippets usually made of this (7) 22 Line-trapper released by bolting fish (3,4) 24 Used to pin hookline to deck (5) 27 See 23ac. 30 Norfolk river – in Grantham! (3)