G'day!
◆ · By JeffsPuzzles · Published 2024-02-07T13:11:02.092Z
Constructor's Note
I recently got back from an amazing three-week holiday in Australia and New Zealand. This puzzle celebrates Australia; next week it's New Zealand's turn.
Jeff Linder
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Apt rhyme for fled (as in "I ___ away from the Vegemite-covered toast")
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- 1AApt rhyme for fled (as in "I ___ away from the Vegemite-covered toast")
- 5A"La ___" (progeny of Spanish and indigenous peoples in Mexico; it loosely means "the People," not "the Race")
- 9AOne of around one million feral, humped, non-indigenous mammals in the Australian desert
- 11AI will need to drink several of these bitter brews before next tasting Vegemite
- 12ABeer from Shmaltz Brewing Company
- 14ARomance novelist Roberts
- 15AEmu ___ (1932 Australian conflict won by the emus)
- 16AHow you can't fly to Australia from the east coast of the United States
- 18AActress Taylor-Joy
- 20ADegree for Shaq
- 21AThe ____ (much of Australia)
- 24AAunt (Sp.)
- 25AMiddle-eastern eye makeup or one-time midwestern senator (and Bucks owner) Herb
- 28ASeacrest and Strahan, for two
- 32AOne-time source of Triptiks
- 33ASome Australian mammals, for short
- 34ASoviet leader/mass murderer
- 36AOn
- 37AInland taipan, e.g. (one of Australia's one hundred or so species of poisonous reptiles)
- 38APuzzle with a puzzle
- 39ATaiwanese computer brand
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- 1DThe last syllable of "Australia," in the International Phonetic Alphabet
- 2DSong of praise (ironically, it's prounounced kind of like a bathroom activity, which reminds me of a joke: If you're American outside the bathroom, what are you inside?)
- 3DJoey at birth, essentially
- 4D___ Spiegel
- 5DTurn a place over looking for loot
- 6DMuch
- 7DNumber of mass shootings in Australia in 2023 (and in most years since 1996, when the right-wing government of this nation of proud freedom-lovers imposed stringent gun ownership restrictions following a tragic shooting in Tasmania). Imagine a place where parents don't have to worry about their kids being shot at school!
- 8DStat! equivalent, as in "get that vegemite away from me ____!"
- 10D___ Goodman (late Dancing with the Stars fixture)
- 13DCute Australian marsupials, as long as you don't get near them
- 17DShaq's league
- 19DPlace to pamper your Porsche (or your 2013 Nissan Altima and 2009 Ford Escape, in my case)
- 22D"___ the season"
- 23DCute Australian marsupials that sleep 20 hours a day
- 26D"Mute ocher deserts/Ancient forests, teeming reefs/Sun, sand, rain, wind, fire," e.g.
- 27DPenny and Lois, e.g.
- 28DPublic transport in Melbourne, which has the largest ___ network in the world
- 29DWhat over 90% of eligible Australians routinely do (it's compulsory)
- 30DOwl sound
- 31DThey run E-W in NYC
- 35DLetter to ask for three times in spelling "Australia"