WEEKLY CROSSWORD

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ACROSS

1 It makes cubes of e.g. luncheon meat (4,6) 7 Drink through a straw ... Shannon’s main tributary! (4) 9 Shape of an olivette (8) 10 Buy goods from abroad – some shrimp or turbot (6) 11 _ _ Kavanagh, created the stiff rig (4) 12 Legendary piker, ‘Piking Pirate’ (*got rod burn) (4,6) 13/17 Norfolk resort at mouth of Yare (5,8) 15 Furthest ebb of the tide (3,5) 17 See 13ac. 20 Like wetland areas (6) 22 Somerset town on River Parrett (10) 25 John __, spiny-finned coastal fish (4) 26 Attach – part of gaff I x-ray (5) 27 Pop-ups are buoyant ones (7) 28 Kent town on Romney Marsh – in drizzly d-deluge (4) 29 Norfolk club, Bait Tech winners 2015 & 2017 (*men had rigs) (10)

DOWN

2 Close of day (7) 3 Number of baits common in kebab rig (5) 4 Normal float position, waiting for bite (7) 5 Narrowing of a rod (5) 6 Colourful trout seen after a shower? (7) 7 Splendid as an AT/Bait Tech Clubman’s Cup match? (5) 8 Turn to rust (7) 14 Dutch __ disease (3) 15 A musical note in Bala hair-rig! (3) 16 Scottish river *Ray diverted (3) 18 Previously (*a dry ale) (7) 19 Such fly-tying thread absorbs varnish/adhesive (7) 20 Bond preferred this cocktail shaken (7) 21 Yorkshire resort (*as Rhone) (7) 23 Former SW Wales county: rivers include Teifi and Ystwyth (5) 24 Italy’s third longest river (5) 25 May be used to hair-rig maggots (*grind) (1,4)