THE AUSTRALIAN
ACROSS 1 Roy Rene’s vaudeville character, Mo … (8) 5 Leg spinner who played his first Test in 2009, Bryce … (6) 9 Men At Work singer (5,3) 10 Mate (coll) (6) 12 First Aboriginal senator, in 1971, Neville … (6) 13 Presenter of a TV gardening show until 2004 (3,5)
15 To Her Door and From Little Things singer-songwriter (4,5) 16 2007-2012 Qld Premier, … Bligh (4) 19 Mosquito-borne virus named after Townsville’s stream, … River fever (4) 20 Plough invented for the mallee country in 1876 (5,4) 23 Sheep or cattle farmers (8) 24 Nelle in Ally McBeal, … de Rossi (6) 26 Breaststroker with nine Olympic medals, … Jones (6) 27 Cloud and rain spirits in Aboriginal rock art (8) 28 Magazine founded by Sir Frank Packer in 1933, … Weekly (6) 29 Bobby Limb’s partner (4,4) DOWN 1 Batsman who made 187 in the 1932 SCG Bodyline Test, Stan … (6) 2 Original name of the football ground in Melbourne’s Docklands (8,7) 3 Cabaret singer Judi … (8) 4 Alan Marshall’s autobiography, …… Jump Puddles (1,3) 6 First Reserve Bank governor, in 1960, Nugget … (6) 7 Aboriginal landscape painter who died in 1959 (6,9) 8 WA town on the Coolgardie-Esperance Hwy (8) 11 Prehistoric pine tree found near Sydney in 1994 (7) 14 Perth rugby team, the … Force (7) 17 Acacia scrub of NSW and Qld (8) 18 Iconic 1953-57 General Motors model (1,1,6) 21 Glenn McGrath’s nickname (6)
22 Truly Madly Deeply band, … Garden (6) 25 Perth Test cricket ground (1,1,1,1)