THE AUSTRALIAN
ACROSS
1 Singer born Kandiah Kamalesvaran in Malaysia in 1934 (6)
4 Praise and The White Earth author, Andrew … (7) 10 World’s biggest alluvial gold nugget, found in Victoria in 1869, at 3,123 oz (7,8) 11 Independent Senator from 2008, … Xenophon (4) 12 2009 and 2013 Brownlow medallist, … …, Jr. (4,6) 14 Little River Band’s 1978
Reminiscing album, …Catcher (7) 15 Sid Heylen in A Country Practice (6) 19 Democrats leader who died in 2004, … Haines (6) 20 Northern Sydney beach (7) 23 Bikini-clad Gold Coast parking attendants (5,5) 25 Qantas co-founder, Hudson … (4) 27 AFL Footy Show comedian until 2008 (6,9) 28 1992-96 Olympic 1500m freestyle winner, Kieren … (7) 29 1950s female equivalent of a bodgie (6)
DOWN
1 Sunshine Coast suburb, … Waters (6) 2 The Doctor Blake Mysteries star, Craig … (9) 3 Russell Crowe’s 2010 movie,
Robin… (4) 5 You Am I song, …Clown (6) 6 Original Specks and Spicks team leader (4,6) 7 Type of schoolboy’s marble (5) 8 Late Beauty and the Beast host, Stan … (7) 9 George Johnston’s classic novel,
My… Jack (7) 13 Historic Derwent river town (3,7) 16 Peter Carey’s Booker Prize winner,
True History of the…… (5,4) 17 Gai Waterhouse’s trainer father (1,1,5) 18 Victorian town, the centre of Sunraysia (7) 21 Most northerly of the Whitsunday Islands (6) 22 Bodalla tourist attraction, Big … (6) 24 Play School theme song lryics, “There’s a bear in …” (5) 26 2013 X-Factor winner, … Im (4)