THE AUSTRALIAN

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ACROSS 1 Edmund Barton’s successor, Australia’s second prime minister (6,6) 9 System of property registration, first used in SA in 1858, … Title (7) 10 Tasmanian brewer, Australia’s oldest, established in 1832 (7) 11 1983 red-haired BMX Bandits star (6,6) 14 Domes tic Blitz carpenter and host of The Block (5,3) 15 Democrats leader who defected to Labor in 1997, … Kernot (6) 17 Jeff Kennett’s successor as Victorian premier, Steve … (6) 19 Mo McCackie catchphrase: “Don’t come the … …” (3,5) 22 Leg-spinning former Test captain and Channel Nine commentator who died in 2015 (6,6) 25 Remote bush areas (7) 26 Canberra NRL club (7) 27 Comedian who was Quinney in Bellbird (6,6)

DOWN 1 Sally McManus’ union group (1,1,1,1) 2 North Queensland soccer club that folded in 2011 (4) 3 Ex-Hawks and Swans star Peter “Spida” … (7) 4 Melbourne identity nicknamed “Tuppence”, shot dead in 2009 (3,5) 5 1861-62 Melbourne Cup winner (6) 6 City west of Brisbane (7) 7 Beauty and the Beast panellist, wife of Hawke minister John Brown (3,6) 8 John Howard’s old seat (9) 12 WA river, reaching the sea near Onslow (9) 13 Municipality south of Brisbane (5,4) 16 River near Cape Tribulation in North Qld (8) 18 Industrial city south of Perth (7) 20 Idol and Young Divas singer (7) 21 Three-times BBC Rock Brain of the Universe, Glenn … … (1,5) 23 Aluminium smelter near Launceston, … Bay (4) 24 Childers-Bundaberg highway (4)