THE AUSTRALIAN

ACROSS 1 2006 Idol runner-up, and star of BranNueDae and The

Sapphires (7,6) 10 Bank of New South Wales’ name from 1982 (7) 11 Paul Fenech in Housos, Franky … (7) 12 80m hurdler, 1964 Olympic bronze and 1968 silver medallist (3,7) 13 Kym Gyngell TV comedy, …

Carpenter (4) 15 Edwina Batholomew celebrity show Dancingwith…… (3,5) 17 Ned Kelly’s reputed last words, “… … Life” (4,2) 19 ARIA’s 2014 Best Dance Release winners, … Duk (6) 20 1960s ALP executive, the ‘36 … Men’ (8) 23 1962 Melbourne Cup winner, … Stevens (4) 24 Outer east Melbourne suburb with the ‘Mega Mile’ (10) 27 2010 Kate Ritchie police drama (4,1,1,1) 28 Fashion designer, Akira … (7) 29 Ian Thorpe’s coach after Doug Frost (6,7) DOWN 2 Randwick Group One race, … Handicap (5) 3 Backyard sewage system (6,4) 4 Sound south of Perth, site of HMAS Stirling naval base (8) 5 Gippsland town near Sale (6)

6 BlanketyBlanks comedian, … Dave Gray (4) 7 Thin Arthur in TheAuntyJack

Show, Rory … (9) 8 Cheap drunk, ‘… … screamer’ (coll) (3,3) 9 Greater Western Sydney AFL club founded in 2009 (6)

14 TheX-Factor host (4,6) 16 The Saints guitarist and Laughing Clowns frontman (2,7) 18 The Choirboys hit, Runto… (8) 19 Guy Pearce miniseries with Kate Winslet, Mildred… (6) 21 Snowy river tributary, … Buggan (6)

22 BananasinPyjamas food, … honeycakes (6) 25 1976 John Paul Young hit, ……the

Music (1,4) 26 HungryBeast host, comedian and filmmaker, Dan … (4) Yesterday’s solution ACROSS: 1. Spiny anteater 10. Adriano 11. Ed Husic 12. Diva 13. Antipodean 15. Gellhorn 16. Mangos 19. Stefan 20. Kavanagh 23. Remarkable 25. Liar 27. Chernin 28. Tolstoy 29. Peter McNamara. DOWN: 2. Parkville 3. Noah 4. ACountry 5. The Air 6. Ashton Agar 7. Essie 8. MadDog 9. Scones 14. D H Lawrence 17. Gladiator 18. Carleton 19. Sarich 21. Harry’s 22. Mannum 24. Mieke 26. Slim.