THE AUSTRALIAN
ACROSS 1 Australia’s largest river system (6-7) 10 Nickname of the ex-NSW ALP power broker and Olympic Village ‘mayor’ (5) 11 Emblem on the WA flag (5,4) 12 Crowded House hit, ……It’s Over (4,5)
13 ThisFire band, Birds of … (5) 15 Tasmanian river and forest with old-growth mountain ash trees (4) 16 West Indian-born pianist who died in 1983, … Atwell (8) 19 1979 Mi-Sex hit, …Games (8) 20 Introduced pest bird, Indian … (4) 24 1988 World Surfing Champion, Barton … (5) 25 1970s BLF environmental strikes (5,4) 26 Anglican Church’s community services (9) 28 StrawberryKisses singer, … Webster (5) 29 Ship that brought down Hobart’s Tasman Bridge in 1975 (4,9) DOWN 2 Brian Mannix’s Everybody’sWants
toWork band (7,1-3) 3 Mandy McElhinny in her AAMI ads with Ketut (6) 4 Talk incessantly (coll) (6) 5 SydneyMorningHerald cartoonist (4,4) 6 Kylie song, OnaNight…… (4,4) 7 Nick Giannopoulos’ TV comedy,
Acropolis… (3) 8 1991 Josephine Byrnes miniseries,
…ofChrist (6) 9 Alice Springs annual ‘boat race’, Henley … … (2,4) 14 World Series Cricket founder (5,6) 17 1970 hit single by The Mixtures, The…Song (4,4)
18 OnOurSelection and Gonetothe Dogs director (3,1,4) 19 2002-03 TV police drama, White
…Blue (6) 21 Steve Waugh’s son (6) 22 2000 Olympic tennis semi-finalist, … Dokic (6) 23 Sect accused of the Hilton Hotel bombing, … Marga (6) 27 Bert Newton’s morning TV show (1,1,1)
Saturday’s solution
ACROSS: 1. Dancer 5. Fields 10. Alexander Downer 11. Pie floater 12. Bull 14. To be easy 16. Curtis 18. Bomber 19. Napranum 22. Ride 23. McClements 26. Oarsome foursome 27. Myuran 28. Meanie. DOWN: 2. Adele 3. Charlie Teo 4. Rod Marsh 5. ForBen 6. Egon 7. Dan Sultan 8. Carpet 9. Grills 13. Turramurra 15. Bomaderry 17. Ballroom 18. Barton 20. Muster 21. McKeon 24. Naomi 25. Roar.