THE AUSTRALIAN

ACROSS 1 Melbourne’s Carols by Candlelight venue (4,5,4) 9 Coal town SE of Melbourne (9) 10 ‘Westie’ or ‘bevan’ (coll) (5) 11 Anti-corruption watchdog (1,1,1,1) 12 Lion Nathan NSW lager, first brewed in 1931 (7,3) 14 D’Arcy Niland book, and Bryan Brown miniseries, The… (8) 15 Goodooga-born elder who wrote MySurvivalasanAboriginal, Essie … (6) 18 Tasmanian town named after nearby swans (6) 19 Bill Woodfull’s Bodyline opening partner, Bill … (8) 22 Gangland TV series (10) 24 Banjo Paterson poem, Hayand…

andBooligal (4) 26 Belle Taylor in HomeandAway, Jessica … (5) 27 Mountain range in the Pilbara (9) 28 Jacki Weaver’s Oscar-nominated movie, ……Playbook (6,7)

DOWN 1 Perth Hills town and weir (9) 2 View of the Three Sisters at Katoomba, … Point (4) 3 John Meillon’s ‘60s TV sitcom,

MyName’s…,What’sYours? (8) 4 Nickname of the aviator after whom Sydney Airport is named (6) 5 Children’s play shed (5,5) 6 2002-04 Green MP for Cunningham, Michael … (5) 7 1975 AC/DC hit,

It’sa……totheTop (4,3) 8 Annual script writers awards (6) 13 Ord river reservoir (4,6) 16 1916 battle where Australia suffered 5,533 casualties (9) 17 Aboriginal water carrier (8) 18 Comedian who plays Effie Stephanidis, Mary … (7) 20 NRL Player of the Year medal (5,1)

21 ThisWeekLive and Spicks &Specks comedian, … Laurie (6) 23 1988 INXS single, …Inside (5) 25 Model, TV personality and 2006 Miss Australia, … McNaught (4)