THE AUSTRALIAN
ACROSS
1 Megan Gale and Alex Perry TV fashion show (7,6) 10 Elastic cord used to tie loads (coll) (4,5) 11 Natalie Bassingthwaighte’s band, … Traders (5) 12 1974-75 Melbourne Cup winner, … Big (5) 13 Dingos (9) 14 Bushranger captured at Glenrowan in 1880 (3,5) 16 Intelligence organisation founded in 1952 (1,1,1,1) 19 Released the single WheretheWild
RosesGrow, a duet with Kylie Minogue, Nick … (4) 20 ABC science program (8) 24 1980s ComingHome rock band, The … (9) 25 Narrator Neville in TheAuntyJack
Show, John … (5) 27 Intelligence facility near Darwin, … Bay Receiving Station (5) 28 Small arboreal marsupial (9)
29 WakeinFright star who was born John Goffage (5,8)
DOWN
2 Horse that died after the 2014 Melbourne Cup, Admire … (5) 3 1980 INXS song, ……Walking (4,4) 4 Town north of Ingham, near Hinchinbrook Island (8) 5 Kerry O’Brien’s ABC current affairs show, The7.30… (6) 6 Tasmanian native hen (6) 7 Gough Whitlam’s Immigration minister (2,7) 8 1980 Air Supply hit, ……Love (4,2) 9 SBS series, JohnSafran…God (6) 15 Port Power chairman (5,4)
17 BlanketyBlanks regular, Stuart … (8) 18 Difficult character (coll) (4,4) 19 Mel Gibson film, ThePassionof
the… (6) 21 Scandal’us singer who married Kyle Sandilands, … Jaber (6) 22 Ex-NRL boss and Football Federation CEO, David … (6)
23 Spicks&Specks team leader, Ella … (6) 26 Anti-litter campaign, ‘Do the … thing’ (5)
Yesterday’s solution
ACROSS: 1. Butcher 5. Supply 9. Albert Namatjira 10. Tom Collins 12. Khan 14. Defying 15. Tatura 18. O’Hagan 19. Buckley 22. Tahu 23. David Astle 25. North Queensland 27. Barmah 28. Sunrise. DOWN: 1. Beauty 2. TAB 3. Harmony Day 4. Randling 5. Symond 6. Pete 7. Leigh Nugent 8. Farnham 11. Meekatharra 13. Jack Lawson 16. Ponting 17. Business 20. Karuah 21. Beddoe 24. Whim 26. Am I.