THE AUSTRALIAN

ACROSS 1 Edible larva of the cossid moth (9,4) 9 Sydney-based gas company (1,1,1) 10 NSW South Coast town, a popular weekend holiday destination for Canberrans (8,3) 11 Jimmy Barnes’ brother who had a hit with If I Were a Carpenter in 1981 (6) 12 Brisbane koala sanctuary (4,4) 14 Disgraced Kangaroos star who joined the Crows in 2002 (5,5) 15 Spy group founded in 1949 (1,1,1,1) 17 SA town near Mt. Gambier (4) 19 1943 Kylie Tennant novel and 1979 ABC miniseries, Ride…… (2,8) 22 Education centre west of Townsville, … Towers (8) 23 Ned Kelly’s reputed last words and former footballer Ben Cousins’ tattoo, “Such … …” (2,4) 25 Mornington Peninsula tourist attraction with a chairlift (7,4) 26 Doctor’s union (1,1,1) 27 Best-selling Colleen McCullough novel and a 1983 Rachel Ward mini-series (3,5,5)

DOWN 1 Wandering about, looking for work, ‘on the …’ (coll) (7) 2 Ex-model and Beauty and the Beast panellist, Maggie … (8) 3 Province declared independent from WA in 1970, … River (4) 4 Shearing the Rams painter (3,7) 5 North Qld Aboriginal leader, Murrandoo … (6) 6 Pest animals introduced to Australia in 1859 (7) 7 The Power of One author (5,9) 8 North Qld council covering Innisfail and Tully (9,5) 13 1956-64 Olympic 100m freestyle champion (4,6) 16 NT prospector said to have found a fabulous gold reef (8) 18 1998-2007 Qld Premier, Peter … (7) 20 Tamworth music awards, Golden … (7) 21 Exclamation used by Barry McKenzie (6) 24 1960 Olympic 1500m winner, … Elliott (4)