CROSSWORD & PUZZLES Fun for your brain

Across

1 Simon __, dace record-holder since 2002, *has not changed (6)

5 Line tangle from spool over-run on baitcaster (8) 9 Peeler __, great sea angling bait (4)

10 Abounding with e.g. wetland grasses (5) 11 e.g. angler’s kit (4) 12 County location of Barford Lakes (7)

13 Glittery thread for fly lures (*silent) (6)

15 Larva of waterside moth-like fly, used as bait (6)

17 It has bearings to make a reel turn smoothly (8) 19 Gurnard’s common name (*no rabies) (3,5) 21 Adjustable spanner (6) 22 Cured haddock cooked over fire’s fumes (6)

24 A Rhondda Valley coarse/ game fishery (*rain TNT) (3-4) 26 Knotted (4)

28 Plunge into water – in flooded Ouse (5) 29/21 dn. Accessories for seat boxes for e.g. maggot tubs (4,7) 30 Cumbrian town on Rawthey, near the Dee (*begs herd) (8)

31 Emphasise – what fish suffer in a drought (6)

Down

2 Pete ___ , legendary carper aka Sir Pete (*Paris gent) (9) 3 What a tiger nut actually is (*brute!) (5)

4 Tapers, like a stick float body (7)

5 Silvery surface feeder with delicate scales (5) 6___ waggler is a clear plastic, sliding float (7)

7 Stage in a contest (3)

8 A ___ river rises and falls rapidly (*a pest) (5)

14 Sort of shark – cares for the sick? (5)

16____ Skinner, ‘bread punch king’ (5)

17 Rubbish container... in Abingdon (3) 18 Hookbaits with two or more different baits (9)

20 Used to liquidise e.g. bread (7) 21 See 29ac.

23 Corn steep liquor is made from this cereal (5)

24 Glass fibre rod has a __ texture (*ought) (5)

25 Fossil resin... made from *bream (5)

27 Allow bait to bob up and down when fishing (3)