THE AUSTRALIAN

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ACROSS

1 Centre of the Macarthur region of southwest Sydney (12) 9 Bill O’Reilly’s 30’s Test spin bowling partner, … Grimmett (7) 10 Gabrielle in The Secret Life Of Us, … Budd (7) 11 Large amounts of money (coll) (3,7) 12 John Dixon’s 1959-86 comic strip,

Air…& the Flying Doctors (4) 14 Army base in Brisbane’s north (8) 16 Bad-tempered (coll) (6) 18 NW Melbourne suburb (6) 19 Nepean river dam supplying water to Sydney (8) 22 Michael Clarke’s wife (4) 23 Store ship in the First Fleet (10) 26 Crowded House’s 1993 single, … Sun (7) 27 Plateau and National Park west of Coffs Harbour (7) 28 Limestone formation near Port Campbell that collapsed in 1990 (6,6)

DOWN

1 Peter Rowsthorn in Kath & Kim, Brett … (5) 2 Port Phillip Bay peninsula, southeast of Melbourne (10) 3 NSW women’s cricket team (8) 4 Lightweight boxing champion’s son, Mitchell in Ja’mie: Private School Girl, … Ellis, Jr (6)

5 Slide Show team captain, … Truslove (4) 6 NSW Darling river town, once the third largest inland port (9) 7 Jockey Arthur Breasley’s nickname (6) 8 Eastern NT tablelands (6) 13 Gold Coast amusement park where

Big Brother was filmed (10) 15 The Veronicas twins, Lisa and Jessica … (9) 17 Gold Coast suburb on the Broadwater (8) 18 NT World Heritage park (6) 20 Bradman’s nickname (3,3) 21 Country music pioneer, Tex … (6) 24 Rolf Harris’ 1961 hit, Sun … (5) 25 Merchant bank that collapsed in 1980, Nugan … (4)