THE ANGLER’S CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1___ tail lure ... used to propel a canoe! (6)

4 Did what anglers do (6) 9 Lancs. river and reservoir (*a worry) (6)

10 Wiltshire estate/safari park, home of Shearwater Lake (8)

11 Charity saving lives at sea – in northern lighthouse! (4) 12 Stiff, unbending (5)

14 A major European river ... part of level beach (4)

15 Like still, brackish water (8) 18 Jamie ___, twice UK Champion (2002+2003) (*Samson!) (6)

19 River joining Thames near Sheerness (*dam Wye) (6) 21____ Navigation, canal linking Lincoln to the Trent (*so fed sky) (8) 23 See 3dn.

24 e.g. squall (5)

26 Also called drifter float (4) 28 Wetland wading bird (*shark den!) (8)

30 ___ Goulder, 2008 Drennan Cup winner – in radar range (6)

31 County of Thorpe Lea and Bury Hill fisheries (6)

32 Also called half blood knot (6)

DOWN

1 Shrimp-like crustacean loved by perch (5)

2 Surrey town near Bury Hill Fisheries (*go drink) (7) 3/23 Prolific N. Ireland salmon river, drains Lough Neagh (5,4)

5 First name of carper ‘Ting Tong’ McMillan (3) 6 Big carper, Austin ‘Oz’ ____ (*lose NHS) (7)

7 Top Yorkshire predator angler (*OK, bend oar) (4,5) 8 Tardebigge has UK’s longest such canal feature (6,2,5)

13 Rounded shape of mushroom floats’ tops (5) 16 Whiteacres two lakes off-site fishery (*rarest wet) (9)

17 Bottomless pit (5) 20 Thameside royal borough near Virginia Water (7) 22 Scottish river, home of UK’s largest fly-caught salmon (1924) (7)

25 Gold, silver or bronze? (5) 27 Salmon and trout river of S. Wales – *then a mess! (5) 29 Expert – central to Macey! (3)