THE AUSTRALIAN
ACROSS 1 Narrow gauge Dandenongs tourist railway (7,5) 9 Tigers NRL player suspended for ‘finger-poking’ in 2001, John … (7) 10 NSW town with Southern Cross University (7) 11 GWS’s Canberra home ground (6,4) 12 Mary-Anne Fahey’s Comedy
Company schoolgirl, Kylie … (4) 14 Ex-Sydney, Carlton, Demons and North Melbourne coach, Ron … (7) 15 Village near Bathurst where gold was found in 1851 (6) 18 Short-lived 1980 soap, one of Australian TV’s biggest flops (6) 20 Scrub between Coonabarabran and Narrabri (7) 24 Chocolate energy drink (4)
25 DGeneration comedian and AFL pre-match host (4,6) 27 WA town or Princess Mary’s adopted country (7) 28 Jana Rawlinson’s maiden name (7) 29 Ruth Cracknell and Garry McDonald’s ABC comedy (6,3,3) DOWN 1 Aboriginal community NW of Alice Springs famed for its artwork (7) 2 PowerwithoutGlory author (5,5) 3 Iva Davies’ GreatSouthernLand band (8) 4 Small temporary outback lake (6) 5 Swimmer John Konrads’ sister (4) 6 Gold town north of Kalgoorlie (7) 7 Matthew Flinders’ boat, Tom… (5)
8 Drover’sBoy singer and ex-NT Administrator (3,4) 13 Supermarket chain founded in Sydney in 1924 (10)
16 FromLittleThings Aboriginal singer-songwriter, Kev … (7) 17 WA wheatbelt town near Narrogin (8) 19 Sean Connery’s first wife, Diane … (7) 21 Ex- BigBrother host, Mike … (7) 22 Timber truck (coll) (6) 23 1932-39 PM, Joseph … (5) 26 1987 Wimbledon champion, Pat … (4)