WEEKLY CROSSWORD

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Across

7 Spool’s anti-reverse switch prevents this (11) 9 Young shark (3) 10 Invasive, striped freshwater mussel (5) 11 Money-raising angling event ‘Match __’ (3) 12 Area of Peterborough by Nene (*or not!) (5) 13 Another name for floats/ corks (7) 15 Warned by alarm? (*drat, eel!) (7) 17 Throws out line/bait again (7) 19 Nickname for small carp - meat pies! (7) 22 A dog ___ may be used as carp bait (7) 24 Small bass of English Channel or draughts piece (7) 25/4 Popular S.Wales waterway (*or remove rig) (5,6) 27 Island in Morecambe Bay – breaking *oar (3) 28 Chilterns town, source of River Lea (5) 30 A pollutant if spilt in sea, river etc (3) 31 Legendary angler, buddy of Dick Walker (*patters home) (5,6)

Down

1 Crust on skin wound (4) 2 Works damp bread into paste (6) 3 Common crucian’s slimmer relative (4,4) 4 See 25ac. 5 A dark __ on a maggot indicates freshness (4) 6 A zander’s dorsal fin is (6) 7 Screw-in attachment for multiple rod rests (4,3) 8 Hunters of e.g. minke (7) 14 County location (abbrev) of Alders Farm (5) 16 Dense as the tip of a balsa float? (5) 18 Soak thoroughly (8) 20 Furtiveness (*the last) (7) 21 Avon ____, fly fishery at Salisbury (7) 22 Cod relative, long-bodied with flattened head (6) 23 Like immature fruit (6) 24 Seats (*I crash!) (6) 26 Loathsome (*evil) (4) 29 River Trent’s largest tributary (4)