THE ANGLER’S CROSSWORD

(* indicates an anagram)

ACROSS

1 Alternative to e.g. hinged stiff or chod set-up (*roe cling) (5,3) 6/22 dn. Dumpy, clear plastic floats for shallow water (*help crude duck) (6,7) 9 Colour of hydrolastic rated 5-8 (4) 10 Trout/salmon river flowing from Dartmoor to ____mouth (*get in!) (5) 11 A drink in, maybe, Vyrnwy (4)

12 It stops spool spill-off when rod used with bite alarm, etc. (4,4)

13 Put up with e.g. inclement weather? (*rue end) (6)

15 Venom e.g. in spurdog’s dorsal fin spines (6)

17 Ingenuity, initiative (*or secure) (8) 19 Used for casting heavy, baited spombs etc. (*so odd PR) (4,3)

22 Like small, rough waves (6) 23 Mashed, it’s food for lobworms (6) 25/28 Versatile nymph trout lure (*French, curly) (8,3)

27 Willow __: a slim spinnerbait (*flea) (4) 29 Like the lips of ballan wrasse – stupid! (5)

30 See 5dn.

31 Mark ___, Angling Times’ Tackle editor (6)

32 Steve ____, legendary International champ (8)

DOWN

2 Flat floats that take some licking? (9) 3 Sam Perkins’ relationship to Rob Perkins (5)

4 Island off Antrim coast (*NH Trial) (7) 5/30 Bomb-shaped weight, sits firmly in running water (7,4)

6 Meshed fish-landing equipment (*ten snap) (3,4)

7 Gently touch ... small flatfish (3)

8 Meat loved by catfish ... partly alive, right? (5)

14 River of Spain and Portugal (*odour) (5) 16 Variation on a running rig (*ash OK) (5) 18 Nash-owned Essex venue, home of The Emperor (*poke scale) (5,4) 20 Farmyard fowl (*roe sort) (7) 21 Mooring a ship at quayside (*king cod) (7)

22 See 6ac.

24 Fatty acid in e.g. hemp oil ... in some gastropod! (5)

26 West Yorkshire river, tributary of the Calder (5)

28 See 25ac.