THE AUSTRALIAN
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1 Leg spinner who played his first Test in 2009, Bryce … (6) 5 Batsman who made 187 in the 1932 SCG Bodyline Test, Stan … (6) 10 Three NT rivers, North, South and East … (9) 11 BorntoTry singer … Goodrem (5) 12 Henry Lawson’s mother (6) 13 1981 CountingtheBeat band, The … (8) 15 Sunshine Coast resort town (10) 16 2005-08 Test fast bowler, Shaun … (4) 18 Grant Kenny’s ex-wife, … Curry (4) 20 Adelaide newspaper (10) 23 Highway running south from Brisbane to the NSW border, Mount … (8) 24 “Father of the Australian wheat industry”, William … (6) 26 German-born Tasmanian Liberal senator, Eric … (5) 27 1990-96 ATSIC chair, Lois … (9) 28 Seafood restaurant at Watsons Bay, Sydney since 1885 (6) 29 Sea cow (6)
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2 T hePanel and DGeneration comedian, Santo … (7) 3 Barossa Valley town (8) 4 Canberra’s Summer … car festival (4) 5 Ex-Red Bull driver, third in Formula One in 2010-11 and 2013 (4,6) 6 SA town on the eastern edge of the Nullarbor (6) 7 Qld cattle town in the Shire of Banana, west of Gladstone (7) 8 2008 Olympic 100m hurdles runner-up, whose married name is Pearson (5,8) 9 Legendary gold deposit in central Australia (9,4) 14 TV combat show with former rugby league footballer Mark McGaw (10) 17 AC/DC’s 1975 hit single, ………WaytotheTop (3,1,4) 19 Victorian town, the gateway to Phillip Island (3,4) 21 Macquarie Harbour town on Tasmania’s west coast (7) 22 Sgt. Frank Gilroy in ACountry Practice, Brian … (6) 25 Alice Springs’ river (4)