WEEKLY CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Stinging insect larva bait (4,4) 6/23dn. They stop swivels from hitting knots (6,5) 9 Foam formed by e.g. algal bloom (4) 10 Lincs. market town on River Lud (5) 11 Anger – *gear ruined! (4) 12 Small suckered fishes – dreadful *bogies! (6) 13 ___ Lake in Bucks (*or flaws) (7) 15 Devon resort with Town Parks Fishery (*poignant) (8) 17 Like fenland (6) 19 Famous Bluebell Lakes carp, died 2009 (6) 21 Sort of hook: might be used with light line for small fish (4,4) 23 Island off the Llyn Peninsula – *as Derby relocated! (7) 24 Thin, long flatfish – consume grime, partly! (6) 25 Least powerful chess piece (4) 26 That of sardine is oily (5) 27 Its crust makes good bait (4) 28 State categorically – some bass, er, targeted (6) 29 False bites – shoe insoles? (6)
DOWN
2 A mooring (*or a change) (9) 3 Alternately lowering/raising rod tip while reeling in (7) 4 Small brooks (5) 5 Largest of the tuna (7) 6 Expression of contempt – in kasbahs (3) 7 Oxfordshire reservoir for pike and trout (*from oar) (7) 8 Boundaries, margins (5) 14 Syndicate-only water at Stanwick Lakes (*manor) (5) 16 e.g. bivvies and yurts (5) 18 Jack, barbel angler, died 1985: Royalty lake named after him (8) 20 May be used to inject air into lobworm (7) 21 Cylindrical device for winding/stowing line (7) 22 Line is attached bottom only to this float (7) 23 See 6ac. 24 A leader knot with tag ends facing backwards (*in ham) (5) 26 Dumpy, like a chubber float (3)