THE ANGLER’S CROSSWORD

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ACROSS

1 Thick bands round middle of lobworms (7) 5 Fast-flowing part of river (6)

8 Seed used as bait (*raid) (4)

9 e.g. sei or humpback (5) 10 Disco gathering ... in Gravesend (4)

11/26 A Linear Fishery water with over 1000 carp (*spoil moths) (6,4)

12 Woven nylon bait tubing – *shame arm broken! (4,4) 14 Kent resort – diverted *e.g. Tamar (7) 16/25dn. Moth-like insect: its larva is used as bait (6,3) 17 Caught e.g. in fish trap (6) 19 Fenland town location of Buttonhole Lake Fishery (7) 21 Small, colourful marine fish (*daren’t go!) (8) 22 Winged devastator of crops (6)

24 Part of self-cocking float where shotting is loaded (4) 25 Floating ice sheets (5) 26 See 11ac.

27 A forge (*is myth) (6) 28___ Peck, one of Korda’s ‘Masterclass’ anglers (7)

DOWN

1 Cramp-like muscular contraction (5)

2 Vaned, long-range float (7)

3 E. Sussex town on River Ouse (5)

4 Isle of Purbeck town (*new saga) (7)

5 International Pike Festival venue, Lough __ (3) 6 Baiting __: tactic to attract large fish by incremental feeding (7)

7 Presenter of TV Fishing’s ‘Get Hooked on Fishing’ (*Tim shaved) (4,5)

13 e.g. a fish’s slimy secretion (5)

14 Bedfordshire six-lake fishery (*form an arm) (5,4)

15 Supplementary bit of gear (3-2)

18 A support for a secondary rod and line (3,4)

19 Herts. town on the Grand Union Canal (7)

20 Fish that got away? (*see pace) (7)

22 It produces intense light beam – in, alas, error (5)

23 Most reels have a fixed one (5)

25 See 16ac.