WEEKLY CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1/7 It catches sea fish in huge numbers (*Trent law) (5,3) 4 ____ Hughes, of England’s European Champ squad 2018 (7) 8 Spinner with mock deer hair (*luck bait) (8) 9 N. American wolf (6) 10/33 They make ‘coils’ of line for hair rig (*poorly set) (4,5) 12 Tiny water organism (*hardy) (5) 13/31 Scotland’s longest freshwater lake (*each low) (4,3) 15 Three-hulled sailing boat (8) 17 Dublin’s main river (6) 19 e.g. lariniers (6) 21 Botanic tree gardens (*rare boat) (8) 23 9lb 5oz is the British record for this fish (4) 25 Dean __, fishing guru, ex-Olympic decathlete (5) 26 Walled city where the rivers Ouse and Foss meet (4) 28 Norwegian inlets – a St Ives Fishery lake! (6) 30 Midlands town on River Anker (8) 32 Anchor for small boats upsets *’angler ‘P’ (7) 33 See 10ac.
DOWN
1 Cornwall’s county town and its river (*or rut) (5) 2 Biblical boat hidden in Parkdean (3) 3 Hide ... a kind of carp! (7) 4 Scottish waterway, 60 miles long with 29 locks (10,5) 5 ––– Buchwalder, Irish World Pairs Champ 2017 with Rod Scott (7) 6/18 Richmond Park Lake’s historic carp, died 2015 (5,5) 7 See 1ac, 11 Alternately raises and lowers rod tip (5) 14 Ridge on the sole of a shoe, providing grip (5) 16 Arrive at ... a defined section of river (5) 18 See 6dn. 20 ____ Valley Fishery in Devon and TV cartoon family (7) 22 Spike for easy bait-changing (*neat boy) (7) 24 Hebridean island – in Dunbar rapids! (5) 27 Submerged, these tree growths could snag tackle (5) 29 Lead lure with hook moulded into it (3) 31 See 13ac.