WEEKLY CROSSWORD

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Across

1 Stale-smelling, like catmeat (6) 5 Bait dug from the garden? (8) 9 West Sussex river – in marina, Durham! (4) 10 Person eating plant produce only (5) 11 Change yacht’s direction (4) 12 Robin Red’s peppery ingredient (7) 13 Band; thread e.g. of perch eggs (6) 14 The leather carp has almost none (6) 17 e.g. The Queen (7) 18 Describes a salmon returning upstream (7) 21 Like gudgeon’s dorsal/ anal fins (*spy tot) (6) 23 Multi-rig baits (3-3) 24/28 Parasite deadly to many fish (*OTT teenagers) (7,5) 27 Type of carp – and 17ac. (4) 28 See 24ac. 29 Ones near canals are often called ‘Navigation Inn’ (4) 30 e.g. SSG, split, swan, etc. (4,4) 31 Fishy sign of the Zodiac? (6)

Down

2 Reckon ... it’s a bit of lead Duplon (3,2) 3 Morecambe Bay peninsula, by Leven estuary (7) 4 County location of Stafford Moor Fishery (5) 5 Seashore wriggler used as bait (7) 6 First name of anglers Leach and Roberts (3) 7 Month when brown trout fishing usually ends (7) 8 Very small lead weight – makes *Tom so rich! (5,4) 13 Outer ‘skins’ of cheese and bacon (5) 15 Describes rod of two or more materials (*scoop item) (9) 16 Stately water birds (5) 19 Describes bait stored in liquid attractor (7) 20 Very fast, turbulent stream (7) 22 Cuttlefish relative, used as bait (7) 25 The ‘Crunch’ exercise (*tip us) (3,2) 26 Brown trout river near Salisbury – bit of dace, b-bleak! (5) 28 Tree – and its burnt remains? (3)