WEEKLY CROSSWORD
Across
1 Docking area for canal boats (5) 4 Smelt smell like this salad plant (8) 8 Former English Carp Heritage Org. (abbrev) (4) 9 Relating to the countryside (5) 10 Used for bait not mounted on hook (4) 11 Dorset town on the Frome (7) 12 Devon city – its canal is excellent for pike (6) 13 28lb at least – *so nets broken! (6) 15 City on Shannon / humorous verse (8) 18 They’re small bottom-feeding carp (8) 21 __ on Thames, Oxon. (*’Gringo’) (6) 23 ___ Fisheries on Dorset’s Stour (*hot pro) (6) 26 See 16dn. 28 Cowboy boot attachment (4) 29 Bizarre part of fish-weir Diglis! (5) 30 Those of grass carp are thin (4) 31 Irish site of International Pike Classic 2017 (*rough eel) (5,3) 32 ‘Trembling poplar’ (*panes) (5)
Down
1 Dead-end river branch (*tweak crab) (9) 2 Pouch worn at front of kilt (7) 3/14 Connects English Channel and Norwegian Sea (5,3) 4 Very sweet bait flavouring (7) 5 Give birth like a whale (5) 6 Similar to blood knot (*hears me) (7) 7 The choicest ... element of barbel I tempt (5) 14 See 3dn. 16/26 Rig with fake and real maggots (*mineral gag) (3,7) 17 Alternative to fixed spool reel (9) 19 Set-up for silty lake fishing (*rich dog) (4,3) 20 Coastal area (*disease) (7) 22 Quick-release line trapper (3,4) 24 Semi-aquatic ‘river horse’ (abbrev.) (5) 25 Rod’s test curve provides this force (5) 27 Ganges is one of its rivers (5)