THE AUSTRALIAN

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ACROSS

1 Industrial suburb of Canberra (8) 5 Wattle tree (6) 9 John O’Grady’s 1957 novel, under the pen name Nino Culotta (6,1,5,3) 11 2004 Olympic tennis bronze medallist, … Molik (6) 12 Crowded House singer-songwriter and 2018 Fleetwood Mac member (4,4) 14 Australia’s longest-running comic, first published in 1921 (6,5) 18 Star of TheDarkKnight and

BrokebackMountain who died in 2008 (5,6) 21 Victoria’s largest ski resort (2,6) 23 Another name for the thorny devil (6) 25 Governor General who opened the 2000 Olympics (3,7,5) 26 Koo-wee-rup’s neighbour, known as the Mural Town … … Goon (3,3)

27 60 Minutes reporter once married to John Singleton (3,5)

DOWN

1 Children’s show cancelled in 1992, ……&Friends (3,3) 2 Easybeats singer who died in 2015, … Wright (6) 3 Ses Eagles NRL club, Manly … (9) 4 Country singer, the Sheik of Scrubby Creek, … Morgan (4) 6 Sea NE of Qld (5) 7 Trainer who won 12 Melbourne Cups, Bart … (8) 8 Deputy PM in Kevin Rudd’s second term, Anthony … (8) 10 Old Sydney railway workshop at Redfern (8) 13 NSW sapphire town, west of Glen Innes (8) 15 Melbourne council including Ringwood and Croydon (9) 16 Clancy in TheManfromSnowy

River, Jack … (8) 17 Fashion identity ex-partner of Richard Zachariah, Maggie … (8) 19 Sydney bay named by Captain Cook in 1770 (6) 20 Late Qld construction tycoon, Sir Leslie … (6) 22 Ex- WeekendToday host, … McKinnon (5) 24 Fred Hollows’ widow (4)