THE AUSTRALIAN
ACROSS 1 1990 women’s World Surfing Champion (3,8) 9 French explorer met by the First Fleet in Botany Bay in 1788, La … (7) 10 Destroyer that collided with HMAS Melbourne in 1964 (7) 11 North Qld resort near Dunk Island, … Beach (7) 13 Granite boulders 110km south of Tennant Creek, Devil’s … (7) 14 1988-99 Test wicket keeper, Ian … (5) 15 1976 Australian Open tennis champion, Mark … (9) 17 Dorothy Hewett’s play, TheMan from… (9) 19 NT river, the southern boundary of Arnhem Land (5) 21 NSW town, west of Inverell (7) 23 1991-2003 Brisbane mayor, Jim … (7) 25 Australian women (coll) (7) 26 Max Merritt’s SlippingAway band (7) 27 Zoo on Sydney Harbour (7,4)
DOWN 1 Mornington Peninsula resort near The Rip (7) 2 Sugar town just south of Innisfail (9) 3 Farm vehicle (3) 4 Comedian and talk show host (4,7) 5 1991World Cup-winning Wallabies coach, Bob … (5) 6 Vegetable cannery founded at Bathurst in 1926 (7) 7 Optical dispensers founded in Sydney in 1932 (1,1,1,1) 8 1980s Wentworth Detention Centre TV soap (8) 12 Cape York Aboriginal leader (4,7) 14 Sydney’s Royal Easter Show site since 1998 (8) 16 Barossa Valley’s largest town (9) 18 1990s Victorian premier and Beyond Blue chairman, Jeff … (7) 20 Artist whose BluePoles painting is owned by the National Gallery of Australia, Jackson … (7) 22 FAI founder Larry, or his son Rodney who was jailed in 2005 (5) 24 Hume Highway town north of Canberra (4) 26 WA site where tourists feed dolphins, Monkey … (3)