THE AUSTRALIAN

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1 SummerHeightsHigh creator (5,6) 9 Wikileaks founder, Julian … (7) 10 Pester with incessant chatter (coll) (7) 11 North Melbourne captain who resigned in disgrace in 2001 (5,5) 12 Nickname of Peter Garrett’s band, The … (4) 15 It’sRaininginMango author, Thea … (6) 16 Roy Slaven’s comic partner, played by Greig Pickhaver (1,1,6) 18 Gold Coast’s main water supply (5,3) 19 Construction tycoon whose company built Rialto Towers, Bruno … (6) 21 Thin Arthur in AuntyJack, … O’Donoghue (4) 22 Clean Up Australia founder (3,7) 24 Tommy Tavita in WaterRats and Captain Typho in StarWars, Jay … (7) 26 1899-1902 South African conflict where over 600 Australians died (4,3) 27 PNG mountains crossed by the Kokoda Track (4,7)

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1 2007 and 2011 MotoGP World Champion (5,6) 2 StaresandWhispers blues singer who sang TurnontheLights for the Liberal Party at the 1975 election (5,5) 3 Celebrity hairdresser and powerboat racer, … Ackerie (6) 4 Bondi Winter Swimming Club (8) 5 Pat Rafter’s wife, … Feltham (4) 6 Town 100km northeast of Melbourne (3) 7 SA premier after Mike Rann (3,10) 8 Jon Cleary novel and a 1960 Chips Rafferty film (3,10) 13 1975 AC/DC album, …………tothe

Top (3,1,4,3) 14 Disgraced Vatican Prefect of the Secretariat for the Economy, Cardinal … … (6,4) 17 NSW rugby team (8) 20 Rabbit-felt hat made in Kempsey (6) 23 Glenn McGrath’s late wife (4) 25 Holden Monaro’s US name, Pontiac … (1,1,1)