July crossword
CLUES ACROSS
6 Shootable geese (8) 8 Water _ , similar-looking creature to a rat (4) 9 Fuzzy scope image (4) 10 A gun hammer position? Not half! (4-4) 12 _ Mannlicher, Austrian gunmaker (5) 13 Small domestic fowl (7) 15 Those doing the spadework? Moles are natural ones (7) 17 Fish-eating mustelid creature (5) 19 Shooting breeks also available in ‘fours’ (4-4) 21 Bit of footwear, often woolly (4) 22 Introduced quarry species of deer (4) 23 _ Rifle Association, Bisley organization (8)
CLUES DOWN
1 Competitive gundog event (5,5) 2 Variety of gun spring (4) 3 Nationality of the spinone (7) 4 Black and white wader (6) 5 To go for the jugular, deerstalkers target it (4) 7 ‘Blue’ terrier from Ireland (5) 11 A for-profit shoot that really means business! (10) 14 The selection of peg numbers (7) 16 Technology at the heart of BSA’s GRT system (3,3) 18 US scope company (5) 19 Any blighter like the woodpigeon (4) 20 Badger home (4)