WEEKLY CROSSWORD

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Across

1 Flat weight, alternative to pear (*applied rag) (6,4) 7 See 23dn. 9 Elliptical - like White Acres ‘Sycamore Lake’ (4) 10 Ray returned ... for an Isle of Wight river (3) 11 Mealworm is this insect’s larva (6) 12 Sleeves used to join e.g. wires / nylon lines (6) 13 Support for long rod (4,4) 15 Rod joint ring (7) 17 Elderly relative’s knot? (6) 19 Spiral screw end of e.g. bankstick (6) 21 Determine length of fish? (7) 24 Spinner blade - makes *a cool rod (8) 26 The ‘C’ of IYCF (6) 27 Commonsense? *Do swim madly! (6) 29 Used to colour e.g. maggots (3) 30 Omega-3 is a fatty _ (4) 31 Maver’s ‘__ Match This’ (*game) (4) 32 e.g. bubble float for surface fishing (10)

Down

2 UK’s no.1 river competition (9) 3 Simple, strong knot (*or a lamp) (7) 4 Bottomless pit (5) 5 Wels catfish is largest freshwater fish in ____ (6) 6 Fish by letting bait bob up and down (3) 7 Occurs when bolting fish strips off too much line (4-3) 8 Name for Lakeland hills (5) 14 Not a tiddler – sort of *lager! (5) 16 Camel’s smaller relative (5) 18 County home of angling legend, Tommy Pickering (9) 20 Welsh river (*nod hard) (7) 22 Structure marine angler might fish from (*as a well) (3,4) 23/7ac. Yellow/orange ‘ide’ (*frog led one) (6,4) 25 Tench are mainly _ _ green (5) 26 Not murky (5) 28 Buoyant hookbait rig, Johnny ___ (3)