THE AUSTRALIAN
ACROSS 1 Explorer and WA’s first premier (4,7) 9 ABC foreign correspondent and ex- TheTruthIs host, Hamish … (9) 10 1973 Nobel Prize winner for literature, Patrick … (5) 11 Jon English’s ‘70s hit single, …the Page (4) 12 Journalist who died in 2008, P.P. ‘Paddy’ … (10) 14 Beaudesert’s Mt. … Highway (8) 15 Ex-NSW sport minister, rugby league and union international and Commonwealth sprint medallist, Mike .. (6) 18 John Doyle’s ABC miniseries with Bud Tingwell (6) 19 Another name for Fort Denison, in Sydney Harbour (8) 22 Stag party (coll) (5,5) 24 Parramatta river bridge at Rhodes (4) 26 John B. Fairfax’s newspaper group, … Press (5) 27 1971 and 1980 Wimbledon champion, Evonne … (9) 28 Noah Taylor film, The… Kid (11)
DOWN 1 Grafton’s spring festival (9) 2 Rose Byrne film with Hugo Weaving, The Tender… (4) 3 At full speed (coll) (4,4) 4 1983 I Was Only Nineteen band (6) 5 Winner of Australia’s first two Olympic golds, in 1896 (5,5) 6 Eric Jolliffe’s cartoon, Witchetty’s … (5) 7 Australia’s largest soft drinks maker, Coca-Cola … (6) 8 Football jumper (6) 13 ABC 7.30 presenter (5,5) 16 Chris Lilley’s comedy with Daniel and Nathan (5,4) 17 Tigers AFL club (8) 18 Melbourne suburb with Pentridge Prison (6) 20 Melbourne newspaper, founded in 1854 (3,3) 21 Mental As Anything song, The Nips are Getting… (6) 23 Ex- TodayTonight host, Anna … (5) 25 Aboriginal community near Townsville, … Island (4)
Yesterday’s solution ACROSS: 1. Fast Forward 9. BranNue 10. Nambour 11. Twofold Bay 12. Ken G 14. Crennan 15. Kaiser 18. Attard 20. Burgess 24. News 25. Bedfellows 27. Bennett 28. Laidley 29. Tent Embassy. DOWN: 1. Flavour 2. Sundowners 3. Freedman 4. Runway 5. Alma 6. Dookers 7. Abetz 8. Gregory 13. Max Gillies 16. Barnaby 17. Surf Club 19. To Win It 21. Soorley 22. Westie 23. Tszyu 26. Sean.