WEEKLY CROSSWORD

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Across

1 e.g. passes line through pike slider (7) 5 e.g. Mucilin or Vaseline (6) 8 Buddy – not the beach shelter sort! (6) 9 Caught, ready to be landed (2,3,3) 10 River forming part of Durham-Yorks boundary (4) 11 Pins down (*slain) (5) 12/21 Twist-resistant quality of e.g. wire trace (4-4) 13 Container for smelly fishing gear (5,3) 16 Tameside town ... in dash to north (6) 17 One of Robin Red’s spicy ingredients (6) 19 W. Sussex resort – turning *right now (8) 21 See 12ac. 22 Lawful (abbrev.) (5) 24 Plant ... in Rhossili, Lynmouth (4) 26 It joins the Thames at Oxford (8) 27 Barnsley ___, 2017 World Cup Champs (6) 28 Tools for digging up e.g. lugworms (6) 29 Steals livestock (*results) (7)

Down

1 Knot to tie hook or fly to leader (*T-lure) (5) 2 Brings hooked fish to landing net (5,2) 3/25 Warwicks. day-ticket venue (*leader sank) (5,5) 4/19dn. Non-fixed deep-water float (*wriggling leads) (7,7) 5 They enclose canal locks (5) 6 Derbyshire river (*was here) (7) 7 Maize kernels used as bait (9) 14 Chris Yates’ 1980 record carp at Redmire (3,6) 15 Prickly seed case – in hamburger! (3) 16 Injected into e.g. lobworm for buoyancy (3) 18 Has a good test curve for heavy lure/bait casting (4,3) 19 See 4dn. 20 e.g. quiver carry-bag for rods (7) 22 Yorkshire city on the Aire (5) 23 Cylindrical shapes of e.g. silicon rubbers (5) 25 See 3dn.