THE AUSTRALIAN 5028

ACROSS

1 Outrageous Mike Walsh Show personality (6,6)

9 Dot & the Kangaroo author, … Pedley (5)

10 Yellow-flowered South African coastal pest (5,4)

11 Perth netball team, … … Fever (4,5)

12 UK singer who moved to Sydney in 2005, Leo … (5)

13 Toni Collette film with Hugh Grant, About…… (1,3)

14 2016 Melbourne Cup winner (8)

18 Gillian Armstrong film, The Last Days of…… (4,4)

19 Perfect Match host, Tiffany … (4)

23 Australia’ s Next Top Model after Jodhi Meares, Sarah … (5)

25 SA marine emblem, leafy … (3,6)

26 Blue Mountains highway, … … of Road (5,4)

27 2008-14 Governor General, Quentin … (5)

28 1987 500cc motorcycle world champion (5,7)

DOWN

1 Innisfail’s river (9)

2 Marta Dusseldorp TV series, ……to Call Home (1,5)

3 Poet Les Murray’s home town near Taree (6)

4 Affer beck Lauder’s book on Australian speech, ……Strine (4,4)

5 Torres Strait ‘capital’, … Island (8)

6 2000-04 Olympic diving medallist, … Tourky (5)

7 Namoi cotton town (3,3)

8 Ex-ACTU president and International Trade Union leader, … Burrow (6)

15 2006 Idol star and Ty in Neighbours (4,5)

16 Erica Templeton in All Saints, Jolene … (8)

17 Bart Cummings’ nickname (4,4)

18 UK Conservatives’ campaign director, Sir Lynton … (6)

20 Cigarettes Will Kill You singer (3,3)

21 Judy Davis’ first major role, Sybylla in My Brilliant… (6)

22 2012 Olympic diving runner-up, Brittany … (6)

24 Judy Nunn in Home and Away (5)