THE AUSTRALIAN

ACROSS

1 Socceroo goalkeeper, sacked by Chelsea in 2002 for drug use (4,7) 9 Fast food chain founded in Perth in 1978, Red … (7) 10 1990s Test bowler and ICC umpire, Paul … (7) 11 Cold Chisel song inspired by Don Walker’s home town of Grafton (5,5) 12 So Beautiful singer-songwriter, … Murray (4) 14 Nickname for the Illawarra’s main city (3,4) 16 Tasmania’s fourth largest city (6) 19 Dragon singer who died in 1998, Marc … (6) 20 Banjo Paterson poem, The… Polo Club (7) 23 Dawn Lake’s partner, Bobby … (4) 24 Red soil of the Coonawarra wine country (5,5) 27 Bodyline bowler who later emigrated to Australia, Harold … (7) 28 Geraldine Doogue’s ABC religion program (7) 29 Barrier Reef resort and research station (5,6)

DOWN

1 WA wheatbelt town (5) 2 Wine town west of Wodonga (10) 3 Aboriginal initiation site (4,4) 4 Barry Humphries’s ‘Cultural Attache,’ … … Patterson (3,3) 5 SE Melbourne suburb, Glen … (4) 6 NSW Liberal Senator until 2016, Bill … (9) 7 US company, former owner of Vegemite (5) 8 Norman Gunston’s nickname, the Little Aussie … (7) 13 Town on the western edge of the Snowies (10) 15 Square in the centre of Adelaide (9) 17 ABC Trophy Room team leader, Amanda … (7) 18 1956 Olympic 100m freestyle winner, Jon … (8) 21 Christos Tsiolkas novel and 1998 Alex Dimitriades film (4,2) 22 Bandstand star, … Ann Noble (5) 25 Herb in Number96, Ron … (5) 26 1970s Crawfords police show, Division… (4)

Yesterday’s solution

ACROSS: 1. Peter Phelps 9. Lance 10. Colin Lane 11. King Island 12. Dill 14. Pat Cash 15. Morgan 18. Postie 20. MacGill 24. Lime 25. Mark Webber 27. Ben Quilty 28. Alias 29. Story Bridge.

DOWN: 1. Panania 2. The Circuit 3. Reckless 4. Helens 5. Luna 6. Staying 7. Bloke 8. Keeling 13. Von Guerard 16. Appleby 17. Jack Dyer 19. Symonds 21. La Boite 22. Harley 23. Crash 26. Hugo.