CROSSWORD & PUZZLES

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1 Utensil for shredding cheese etc. (6) 4 e.g. wires used in lurefishing (6) 9 Scottish resort with ferry to Hebrides (4)

10 Weighty (5)

11 A desire...a bit of beefburger! (4)

12 Kim ___, International angler of 1990s, retired 2001 (*slim Mo) (6)

13 Long-pole stabiliser/rod rest (4,3)

15 Surgeon’s knife (7)

17 ___ Goldson, won Drennan Cup 2013 (*the rag) (6) 19 ____ waggler: sensitivetipped float (6)

21 It avoids having to tackle down when changing float (7) 23 Coastal harbour (7) 24 Wound up, like line on a reel (*old ice) (6)

25 Like lure used in drop shotting (4)

26 ___ Hammond, carp fanatic and Carthagena Fishery owner (5) 27 Soft light from e.g. fluorescent night stick (4)

28 Finned, weighted bait container (6)

29 2 ___ = approx 6ft 6ins (6) Down

1 Jim ____: carper, designed line-aligner rig (*sign in, Bob) (9) 2 Ideal line for stiff rig set-up (*main sea) (7)

3 Surrey location of Thorpe Lea Fishery (*ah, gem!) (5) 5 Tributary of the Cherwell near Islip (*Ayr) (3)

6 Bulky buoyant float with thick tip (7)

7 Source of molasses (5) 8 New weekly competition for Angling Times readers landing Barbus barbus (6,7)

14 Good hook for the Ronnie rig (5)

16 Paved garden area (5) 18 Upright floats; also water weapons (9)

20 Bungee cord is a form of this (7)

22 Lever e.g. on bait gun (7) 23 Worcs. and Staffs. river, a major Severn tributary (5) 24 Glasgow’s river (5) 26 __ Roberts, team manager of England Under 15s (2019) (3)