WEEKLY CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 A coat of this strengthens floats (7) 5 What beads are made of (7) 9 A maggot is a legless one (4) 10 Encore! (5) 12/27 Carper legend, angling author (*and leave) (4,4) 13 E. Midlands river, Tame trib. – a bit pebbly then (6) 15 Small garden tools (*lets row) (7) 16 Somerset caves location (7) 17 Northants. reservoir (*N.E. bays) (6) 19 _ __ fin on a catfish is small and stumpy (6) 21 Blood-sucking bat (7) 23 Vaned, long-range float (7) 25 Basic tool for baiting a rig (6) 27 See 12ac. 28 Motionless (*nitre) (5) 29 See 22dn. 30 Claws of e.g. osprey (6) 31 Devon fishing port / resort (7)

DOWN

2 Month the 2018 ‘Maver Match This’ qualifiers started (5) 3 Grab hold of – some gudgeon, a bream (3) 4 e.g. bladderwrack (7) 6 Cathedral city on the Witham (7) 7 Family of grasses or type of caddis fly (5) 8 Fluorocarbon line is almost this to fish (9) 11 Switch that stops reel turning backwards (4-7) 14 Is abundant with e.g. fish (5) 16 Milky feed mixture (*a bit could) (9) 18 Mucus covering of e.g. bream (5) 20 Scottish region containing rivers Esk and Almond (7) 22/29ac. TV series featuring huge cyprinid fish (7,4) 24 Perfect ... part of riverside, Alne (5) 26 e.g. caterpillar or maggot (5) 29 Darren __, international angler/coach (3)