THE AUSTRALIAN

ACROSS 1 Polish explorer who named Mt Kosciuszko (4,10) 10 1979 Mike Brady football hit single,

……Cazaly (2,5) 11 Struggler in life (coll) (7) 12 Big Bash cricket team, Hobart … (10) 14 Damned Whore sand God’ s Police author, … Summers (4) 16 Somebody That I Used to Know singer-songwriter Gotye’s real name, Wally … … (2,6) 17 Portuguese explorer who led a 1605 expedition to Terra Australis, Pedro Fernandes de … (6) 19 Newcomer (coll) (4-2) 20 Sure thing (coll) (4,4) 23 Original 7.30Project presenter, … Rose (4) 24 A Country Practice busybody played by Joyce Jacobs (4,6) 26 Sydney theatre housed in disused Randwick racecourse buildings (3,4) 27 Hoadley’s chocolate bar first made in 1913, Violet … (7) 29 1995 USPGA champion (5,9) DOWN 2 AustralianIdol drag star, Courtney … (3) 3 Jakarta-born SBS newsreader (3,3,4) 4 Tom Gleisner and Rob Sitch comedy talk show (3,5) 5 Octagonal and Might and Power’s sire (6) 6 Split Enz single, …LastNight (4) 7 Judy Davis’ husband and star of

WaterRats (5,6) 8 Silverchair’s 1995 song, …Son (7) 9 Very tired (coll) (6) 13 Qld premier before Peter Beattie (3,8) 15 National Park between Iluka and Evans Head, NSW (10) 18 Ryan Moloney in Neighbours, Jarrod ‘Toadfish’ … (8) 19 Jazz musician with a famous quartet, Don … (7) 21 Kevin Rudd’s Finance Minister, Lindsay … (6) 22 Shaun Micallef’s comedy news,

Mad…… (2,4) 25 Cape on the NSW-Victoria border (4) 28 Unlicensed restaurant (coll) (1,1,1)

Yesterday’s solution

ACROSS: 1. Peter Helliar 9. Lygon 10. Bill Kelty 11. Run a banker 12. Hana 14. Duntroon 16. French 18. Bucket 19. Mathison 22. Isis 23. Sandgroper 26. Geeveston 27. Orara 28. Justin Madden. DOWN: 1. Pagan 2. Tony Barber 3. Robinson 4. Eileen 5. Lake 6. AllSaints 7. Alfred 8. Lynagh 13. Arthur Boyd 15. Nic Bideau 17. Kardinia 18. Briggs 20. Norman 21. Vautin 24. Prawn 25. Dent.