THE AUSTRALIAN

ACROSS

1 Neighbours suburb (12) 9 Black and white bird, willy … (7) 10 Jessica Singleton in All Saints and Abi in House Husbands, Natalie … (7) 11 Nickname of the Wheel of Fortune and Catchphrase host (5) 12 Richard Clapton’s 1975 hit, Girls on …… (3,6) 13 First explorers to cross the Blue Mountains, … Wentworth & Lawson (8) 15 Parramatta NRL club (4) 18 1956 and 1957 Wimbledon champion, Lew … (4) 19 Name given to Kata Tjuta by Ernest Giles in 1872 (3,5) 23 Essie Davis’ ABC series, Miss Fisher’s Murder… (9) 24 Governor General who opened the 2000 Olympics, Sir William … (5) 26 Box jellyfish (7) 27 John Williamson’s Uluru song, …on the Rock (7) 28 … Rock near Uralla, a bushranger’s hideout (12)

DOWN

1 Naomi Watts’ 2011 film, J.… (5) 2 Redgum’s 1983 Vietnam War song,

………Nineteen (1,3,4) 3 Tim Finn’s Late LastN ight band (5,3) 4 Wollongong suburb and escarpment road, Mt. … (6) 5 Air Supply’s 1980 hit, All Out …… (2,4) 6 NRL boss from 2016, Todd … (9) 7 Twenty cents (coll) (3,3) 8 Desert animals introduced in 1840 (6) 14 The Anzacs historian, Patsy …-… (4,5) 16 Remote outback places (coll) (3,5) 17 Games held in Brisbane in 2001 (8) 18 Ex- TheTruthIs host and guest panelist and fill-in presenter on The Project, … Macdonald (6) 20 Abuse an opponent in cricket (coll) (6) 21 2010 Commonwealth backstroke champion, … Nay (6) 22 Stuart Hwy town between Alice Springs and Tennant Creek (2,4) 25 Melissa George’s US spy series (5)