THE AUSTRALIAN

ACROSS 1 TV series with Mandy McElhinny as Nene King (5,6) 9 UN General Assembly’s first president, H.V. … (5) 10 Company privatised from the NSW Grain Elevators Board (5,4) 11 Margot Robbie movie, TheWolfof

…… (4,6) 12 Mark Philippoussis’ nickname (4) 14 1973 Aquarius Festival town near Lismore (6) 16 Ian McNamara’s Sunday morning ABC radio show, Australia…… (3,4) 19 Birds also called native companions (7) 20 Paul Keating’s ex-wife, Annita Van … (6) 23 Champion racehorse beaten at the odds of 1-40 in 1939 (4) 24 Equestrian sport first demonstrated in Sydney in 1939 (10) 27 Les Hiddins’ ABC series, Bush…… (6,3) 28 Rainforest plant with edible berries, lilli … (5) 29 Malcolm Fraser’s Deputy PM and National Party leader (4,7)

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1 SeaChange town, … Bay (5) 2 Tweed Shire town (10) 3 You Am I singer, Tim … (6) 4 Nicole Kidman’s adopted daughter (8) 5 Weather pattern bringing drought to eastern Australia, El … (4) 6 Very hot days (coll) (9) 7 Hobart’s river (7) 8 Ex-Sydney Swans star Peter Everitt’s nickname (5) 13 Affected by Top End heat and humidity (4,6) 15 Australia’s largest freshwater fish (6,3) 17 Blue Mountains home of the Three Sisters (8) 18 Colin Thiele tuna-fishing novel and Greg Rowe movie (7) 21 Bill & Boyd song, …NeverMadeIt

toDarwin (5) 22 RAAF warplane, F/A18 … (6) 25 Newsreader parodied on The

Wedge, Sandra … (5) 26 Ex-WA, NSW and Test spinner, … Casson (4)