THE AUSTRALIAN
ACROSS
1 Sharon in Kath&Kim (5,9) 9 One of the trapped Beaconsfield miners, Todd … (7) 10 Ed Phillips’ Temptation game show co-host, … Nixon (7) 11 Winner of eight Olympic medals, Susie “Madame Butterfly” … (6) 12 Dam on the Lachlan river near Cowra, NSW (8) 14 Gina Rinehart’s step-mother and Lang Hancock’s widow (4,8) 18 Comedian, host of TheLivingRoom and team leader on Talkin’‘Bout
YourGeneration (6,6) 21 Singer-songwriter and AustraliaAll
Over radio host, Ian … (8) 23 Sanitary ware company that pioneered the dual-flush toilet (6) 25 Certain (coll) (4,3) 26 Remote rural areas (7) 27 National Park west of Taree, NSW (10,4)
DOWN
1 2003-04 Supercars champion and NASCAR driver, … Ambrose (6) 2 Former IOC vice-president and 1956 Olympic 400m relay silver medallist, Kevan … (6)
3 Amazing singer-songwriter (4,5) 4 Australia’s first Winter Olympic medallist, in 1998, .. Steggall (4) 5 Henry Lawson’s collection of short stories, Whilethe…… (5,5) 6 Margaret in Upper Middle Bogan, Robyn … (5) 7 Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen’s home town (8) 8 Line between Australian football and rugby zones (7) 13 Cyclist replaced by Sean Eadie at the 2004 Olympics (3,7) 15 Adelaide’s art deco music venue, … Theatre (9) 16 From Little Things Aboriginal singer-songwriter Kev … (7) 17 Kangaroo Island town (8) 19 Region west of the Snowys (6) 20 NSW town, site of TheDish observatory (6) 22 Ex-Davis Cup coach, Wally … (5) 24 Tasmanian penal colony, … Arthur (4)