WEEKLY CROSSWORD

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ACROSS

1 Like still (possibly polluted) water (8) 6 Worcs. river, and Redditch fishery: ____ Valley Lake (5) 9 More parched (5) 10 Type of small bait – *I let carp loose (8) 11 Carmarthen Bay town makes *Allen ill! (8) 12 Concerning nations/ races (*Tench I) (6) 13 County location (abbrev.) of Wraysbury gravel pits (5) 15 Type of spiked cage feeder (*hemp rigs) (4,4) 16 Whale that breaches and slaps water (8) 19 Highland resort on Moray Firth, and fly-fishing river (5) 21 Somerset village near R. Brue – and thoroughfare (6) 22 Heavenly Devon fishing venue: Anglers _____ (8) 25 Self-locking device for float legering (*cold isle) (8) 27 Largest of the gobies – found off SW England (5) 28 Name of Nene Valley pit monster carp (*stony) (5) 29 Droitwich is on this river (*spare law) (8)

DOWN

2 Ebbing and flowing (5) 3 Knot for tying line to hooks, swivels (7) 4 Month when fishing licences start (5) 5 Gently hitting water’s surface with pole tip (7) 6 Exposed to this, casters turn dark (3) 7 Thames estuary marshes – in terrain, Hampstead (7) 8 Mick, top quality float maker (*sink in low) (9) 12 French brand of mineral water (*naive) (5) 13 Result of mutation in rainbow hatchery (*but to lure) (4,5) 14 Begin (5) 17 Squeezes e.g. bait into banjo feeder (7) 18 Salted, smoked herrings (7) 20 Spinnerbait, like the ‘Colorado’ (*in an aid) (7) 23 Like royalty (5) 24 Assembled tackle in Dorset, upriver (3-2) 26 __ Heaps, World and European Champ (3)