THE AUSTRALIAN

ACROSS 1 Ernie Dingo travel show (5,8) 10 SA/WA Nullarbor border town (5) 11 Tasmanian east coast peninsula (9) 12 Australian boxer beaten by Anthony Mundine in 2006 (5,5) 14 Magazine founded in 1972 with Ita Buttrose as editor (4) 16 Egyptian-born comedian Akmal … (5) 17 Split Enz percussionist, Noel … (7) 19 Two-up coin tosser (7) 20 1960 British Open golf champion, Kel … (5) 23 Central Qld cattle town (4) 24 Ex-Telstra boss Ziggy … (10) 26 New bicycle owner in Banjo Paterson’s poem (5,4) 27 Film and TV awards since 2011 (1,1,1,1,1) 29 1970 Glenn Shorrock hit with Axiom, Little……… (3,2,8) DOWN 2 WA equivalent of the NRMA (1,1,1) 3 The Nips Are Getting Bigger band, Mental … … (2,8) 4 Sydney’s Mardi Gras street (6) 5 Nevil Shute’s post-nuclear war novel, On…… (3,5) 6 The first line of WaltzingMatilda: ‘… a Jolly Swagman’ (4) 7 Great Train Robber who lived in Australia in the ‘60s (6,5) 8 Makeup entrepreneur, Napoleon … (6) 9 2011 political comedy, ……

withJulia (2,4) 13 Soprano famous for her farewells (6,5) 15 WWI commander after whom a Melbourne university is named (4,6) 18 Ella Scott Lynch ABC courtroom drama (8) 19 Paul Hogan slogan: ‘Put another … on the barbie’ (6) 21 Docklands Stadium’s sponsored name from 2009 (6) 22 Aboriginal children removed from their families, the … Generation (6)

25 GruenTransfer regular, Jane … (4) 28 Mark Mitchell’s ComedyCompany character, … the Fruiterer (3)