WEEKLY CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Source of bait – or junk mail? (4) 4 Severnside city (*got us creel) (10) 9 Turbulent river around a dam (*oil power) (8) 10 Small jighead/plastic combo set-up (*ringed) (3,3) 11 North Sea inlet on England’s east coast, The ___ (4) 12 River flowing through Lanark, Glasgow, etc. (5) 13 Where line is attached to bottom-end float (4) 14 Used with quiver-tips, fine lines, swivelled legers (4,4) 17 Growls angrily “Tangles!” (6) 19 A cross, e.g. between bream and rudd (6) 21 Essex reservoir (*hid lager) (8) 23 Pop-up rig for silty-lake carp fishing (4) 25 *Moans about stoneworker (5) 27 ‘Snag __’ stop rod jumping off bite alarm (4) 28 Hants/Berks. river, Thames tributary (*old Don) (6) 30 Albumen – used as bait binder (3,5) 31 22-mile Midlands waterway, under restoration (5,5) 32 Floating plugs lack these (4)
DOWN
2 Descriptive of a perch or pike (*portrayed) (9) 3 Month ending coarse fishing season (5) 4 Cigar-chewing, bespectacled Marx brother (7) 5 Yorkshire town on the Wharfe, east of Ilkley (5) 6 Lumps of paste bait – and horse chestnut fruits (7) 7 Bit of turf – in Thurso drain! (3) 8 Leeds tackle shop – sponsors of UK Carp Champs (*cries) (5) 13 Spinnerbait’s metal part (5) 15 Drilled, as a tiger nut may be (5) 16 Expanse of salt water – in Ouse, actually! (3) 18 Sleeves keeping sliding weight right distance from hook (5,4) 20 ____ Garnett, angling author/photographer (7) 22 Rivers Foyle and Erne are in this Irish county (7) 24 They aren’t used in daisy chains (5) 26 Back end of boat (5) 27 Woman’s name ... *he let out (5) 29 Use a shallow rig to put bait in front of fish (3)