WEEKLY CROSSWORD
Across
1 Cured haddock cooked over fire’s fumes (6) 5 Second-largest of Tring reservoirs (*to sprats) (8) 9 Amnesia line is memory-__ (4) 10 Fly-fishing tributary of the Wye (*no fir) (5) 11 Hebridean island – in competition angling (4) 12 Berkshire royal town on Thames (7) 13 e.g. dragonfly larva (5) 14 Somerset town on River Brue (*to burn) (6) 16 e.g. a brazil’s covering (8) 19 Shropshire carp fishery (*hit chest) (3,5) 22 Liquid part of blood used as bait binder (6) 24/27 Terrible line tangles (5,5) 26 Merseyside town where Bridgewater Canal ends (7) 28 Knighton (Wales) and Ludlow are on this river (4) 29 Trees ... in Erewash estuary! (5) 30 Decays, decomposes (4) 31 Direction of barbel migrating to spawn (8) 32 Short rail track for shunting (6)
Down
2 Third largest of Tring reservoirs (*short, warm) (9) 3 Non-metallic fish holder with mesh no more than 25mm (7) 4 Flattened, cylindricalshaped pellets (*piles) (5) 5 Rockell’s Farm fishery is in ___ Walden (7) 6 A Scottish river – some canna’ name! (5) 7 Great success – turning *up mirth (7) 8 It makes bread/meat pellets (5) 15 e.g. fyke, pan or spoon (3) 17 Hint – it’s one end of a rod! (3) 18 New Forest river / coastal town (*in GMT only) (9) 20 One of Lake View Fishery’s match pools (*present) (7) 21 W. Sussex location of Sumners Ponds (*oh! marsh) (7) 23 It’s classic form is 11ft long with 1lb test curve (4,3) 24 An alarming sound? (5) 25 Type of ray – in Esk at Easter (5) 27 See 24ac.