November crossword

CLUES ACROSS

6 Events where guns for sale go

under the hammer (8)

8 Shooting supplies, informally (4) 9 Stalked deer species (4)

10 Time-honoured items of

shooting headwear (4,4)

12 One nationality of springer (5) 13 See 22 across

15 Gundog command with

whistle or hand (6)

17 Dazzle from the sun - a

distraction to shooters (5)

20 Horizontal section - basis

of a high seat (8)

21 Tables (of highs and lows) that

wildfowlers often consult (4) 22 & 13 ACROSS A trader of

venison, shot birds, etc (4,6) 23 Responded to the need for

more ammunition (8)

CLUES DOWN

1 Relatives of the weasel (6)

2 Top sections of traps (5)

3 Landed properties where one

might go hunting (7)

4 Indefinitely postpone one’s

shoot day booking (6) 5 Peaty areas of wetland (4)

7 _ Trench, trap shooting variant (9)

11 Perdix perdix is the official name

of this grey gamebird (9)

14 Struggles like groups of moles? (7)

16 Prepared shot game with a knife (6)

18 A sporting offering at the

shoot - 24 hours only? (3,3)

19 _ bore guns, 28-bores and the like (5)

20 Numbered markers on a driven shoot (4)