THE AUSTRALIAN
ACROSS 1 Type of green apple first grown in Sydney in 1868 (6,5) 9 Sigrid Thornton in SeaChange, … Gibson (5) 10 Sunshine Coast national park, … River (9) 11 Tasmanian National Park and New England mountain (3,6) 12 Adelaide’s guided busway (1-4) 14 Garden plant with flower spikes, Gymea … (4) 15 Albury-Wodonga’s Flying … … Circus (5,3) 18 Mark Hammond in Skippy (3,5) 19 Springbrook National Park tourist attraction, Natural … (4) 23 Rhonda’s Balinese admirer in AAMI ads (5) 24 Julian Assange’s news group (9) 25 Divinyls’ album (9) 27 John Farnham hit, You’rethe… (5) 28 Doreen Burns in Prisoner (7,4)
DOWN 1 Wil Anderson’s advertising series (5,6) 2 Northern Sydney beach where
Baywatch was filmed (6) 3 Theatre founded in Kings Cross in 1970 (6) 4 Ex-Minardi and Ozjet boss, Paul … (8) 5 Peter Allen’s 1977 hit, performed with maracas (1,2,2,3) 6 Watcheron-the-Cast-Iron-Balcony author, … Porter (3) 7 Former SBS show, …Village (6) 8 Poor quality, unreliable (coll) (6) 13 Savage Garden album (11) 16 Singer once ‘engaged’ to Graham Kennedy, Lana … (8) 17 First indigenous member of the House of Representatives (3,5) 18 WWII trail over PNG’s Owen Stanley Ranges (6) 20 Late Crowded House drummer, Paul … (6)
21 Shout singer, Johnny … (6) 22 Singer-actress who played Sandy in Grease, … Newton-John (6) 26 Shepparton fruit canning company, … Ardmona (1,1,1)