THIS WEEK’S CROSSWORD

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Across

Work e.g. cheese into pastry to make paste (5) Breakwater marine anglers might fish from (*as a well) (3,4) Seed ingredient of Robin Red (*or odd fib) (4,4) Reward of excellence (*timer) (5) Colour and name of UK’s largest seal (4) Tributary of River Bure (*hunter) (6) Lincs. village where rivers Doe and Twiss meet (*log in net) (8) Equestrian seats (7) Giant, ringed planet (6) Grommet for attaching lure to line (*yet eel) (6) Extractor for removing hook from pike (7) In 2018 he landed UK’s first 65lb-plus common (*also herb) (3,5) See 19dn. See 8ac. e.g. Spurn __ or Orcombe __ (*opt in) (5) ___ __ lake at Elphicks Lake, Kent (London’s theatre-land) (4,3) Airfield Lakes’ five-acre carp lake (*man tugs) (7) Those of driftbeaters are long and slender (5)

Down

__ Elliott, and __ Arthur – both anglers/authors (5) See 27ac. Barrel-shaped boilie (7) Narrow sea channels (*artists) (7) Old, traditional food for aquarium fish (*net gags) (3,4) Seaweed is the marine form of this (*a gale) (5) aka ‘Mozza’ – Carp Wars 2 finalist versus Ian Russell (3,6) __ Water: Cumbrian lake ... in country dales (5) Buoyant material used in e.g. floats (*for my oats) (9) What flatfish lack – so no bites? (5) Edible freshwater fish, native to Africa (*a la tipi) (7) Using line and pole of the same length, to avoid unshipping (7,2,4) Goes round (*as otter!) (7) Takes cover (5) Squirrels’ are called dreys (5) Major river: tributaries include Arrow and Irfon (3)