SPORTING CHALLENGE
ACROSS
1. Queensland Origin rugby league hooker in 2018 (10).
6. Gold Coast triathlete who won gold medal in mixed team relay at 2018 Commonwealth Games (6).
10. Australian flagbearer at 2018 Commonwealth Games opening ceremony (7).
15. Gold Coast sporting family that has produced two AFL footballers and a member of the Diamonds netball squad (7).
16. Holds record for most Origin rugby league wins by a NSW coach (5).
17. Former Test rugby league prop who played for Titans in 2016 (11). 18. Rugby league tackle, slang (3). 19. Brisbane Lions AFL coach from 2014-16 (9).
21. Gold Coast swimmer who won women’s 200m backstroke at 2010 Commonwealth Games (3).
22. Broncos rugby league winger who made his Queensland Origin and Australian Test debuts at age of 21 in 2011 (3,3).
25. Popular Australian golfer who lost his battle with leukaemia in 2018 (4).
26. Gold Coast cricket allrounder who made his ODI debut for Australia v England in 2018 (5).
29. Gold Coast foundation player who won Suns club champion award in 2018 (7).
33. Academy Award-winning actor who is co-owner of South Sydney NRL club (6).
34. Triple premiership player after whom best-on-ground medal in AFL’s QClash between Suns and Lions is named (8).
36. German Formula One driver who retired after winning his first world title in 2016 (7).
37. Nickname of US baseball team Milwaukee (7).
39. Former Australian Test batsman, – Cowan (2).
40. Holden driver who teamed with Steven Richards to win 2018 Bathurst 1000 (7).
42. Controversial cricket delivery by an off-spinner (6).
43. Australian spinner who took 12 wickets in opening match of 2016-17 Test cricket series v India (6).
48. Queensland rugby league winger/ centre who played 23 Origin games from 2002-2014 (4).
49. Gold Coast Suns midfielder who played his 100th AFL game in 2018 but was later traded to North Melbourne (4).
50. Young paceman who was South Africa’s leading wicket-taker in 2016-17 Test cricket series against Australia (6).
51. Maiden name of Olympic champion Gold Coast athlete Sally Pearson (8).
54. Kangaroos ruckman who gained his first AFL All-Australian selection in 2015 (9).
56. Gold Coast product who holds distinction of being the youngest player in State of Origin rugby league history (4).
57. Holds record for most points scored by a player in their Gold Coast Titans career (6).
58. Value of red ball in snooker (3). 60. Nickname of 31 down (3). 61. Captains can be fined for slowness in this area in Test cricket (4,4). 62. Value of pink ball in snooker (3). 63. Gold Coast swimmer who successfully defended her Commonwealth Games women’s 50m breaststroke title in Glasgow in 2014 (7).
64. Davis Cup encounter (3). 69. Former Brisbane Lions defender who was a member of West Coast’s 2018 AFL premiership team (3).
71. Indian paceman v Australia in 2018-19 Test series, – Sharma (6).
72. German golfer who won 2010 US PGA and 2014 US Open (6).
73. Captained Australia to win women’s World T20 cricket championship in 2018 (7).
76. Gold Coast brothers who both played for Brisbane Lions in 2017 AFL season (5).
77. Australian Test cricket captain (5). 78. Former Gold Coast Suns captain who will play for Richmond in 2019 (5). 80. Became first English trainer to prepare a Melbourne Cup winner when Cross Counter won in 2018 (7).
81. Gold Coast Titans prop, – Boyd (7). 84. Gold Coast star and long-serving Australian lawn bowls captain who was shock omission from 2018 Commonwealth Games team (6).
86. Multiple Magic Millions-winning racehorse trainer, – Waterhouse (3).
87. Australia’s only Tour de France winner (5).
90. Australian sporting brothers; one is a 2018 Commonwealth Games high jump gold medallist and the other is a Test cricketer (5).
91. Queensland stalwart who captained Australia at 2011 Rugby World Cup (7).
92. Modified competition format introduced by NRL in the 2014 preseason (5).
93. Manly NRL coach, – Hasler (3).
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1. Won 2018 AFL Brownlow Medal (8). 2. Sydney colt who won 2016 Magic Millions 2YO Classic from Nikitas and Candika before going on to claim Golden Slipper (10).
3. Became first female to win Greg Norman Medal as Australian golfer of the year in 2018 (3).
4. Young unseeded Latvian who won 2017 French Open tennis women’s singles final from Timea Bacsinszky (9).
5. Queensland Origin rugby league winger and centre in 2018 (5). 7. Bowls term (3).
8. Former world heavyweight boxing champion nicknamed Iron Mike (5).
9. Australian swimmer who won two gold medals at 2018 Commonwealth Games, – Seebohm (5).
10. Former Titans halfback who won English Challenge Cup final with Hull FC in 2017 (5).
11. Football scoring medium, – goal (3). 12. Bart Cummings-trained mare who won Melbourne Cup from Shiva’s Revenge and Magnolia Hall in 1991 (4,5).
13. Former Panthers, Roosters and Cowboys winger/centre who played 24 Origins for Maroons from 1995-2005 (4).
14. Former Socceroos coach, – Hiddink (4).
19. Beat Dominika Cibulkova to win 2014 Australian Open tennis women’s singles final (2).
20. Former Test spinner who is a member of Australian cricket’s selection panel (5).
23. Cricket fielding position (12).
24. Queensland Origin rugby league bench forward in 2018 (4).
27. Cricket Australia chief executive from 2001-2018 (10). 28. Major-winning golfer, – McIlroy (4). 30. Gold Coast product who was named AFL All-Australian captain in 2009 (8).
31. Dual international who played for Gold Coast Titans from 2007-2011 (6).
32. Golfing great who won Australian Ladies Masters for eighth time at Royal Pines in 2013 (4).
35. Australian rugby league Test hooker v NZ and Tonga in 2018 (4).
38. West Australian team in A-League (5,5).
41. Accuracy prize awarded in club golf competition (7,3,3).
42. Olympic-winning Australian athlete, – Flintoff-King (6).
44. Coached NRL clubs Canberra, Penrith and NZ Warriors between 2002 and 2014 (7). 45. Major-winning golfer, – Els (5). 46. One of only two sets of father and son to play Davis Cup tennis for Australia (6).
47. Scored goal in extra time to give Australia 2-1 victory over South Korea in 2015 Asian Cup football final (6).
52. Symbol of trans-Tasman international netball supremacy, – Cup (13).
53. Won leading NRL pointscorer award for third time in 2016 (6).
55. England rugby league Test centre who played five games for Gold Coast Titans in 2017 (9).
59. Gold Coast cricketer who was a member of Australia’s World T20 championship-winning women’s team in 2018 (8).
65. Gold Coast Titans half who played for Australian Prime Minister’s XIII v PNG in 2015 (5).
66. Widely travelled hooker who retired after winning NRL premiership with Cronulla in 2016 (5).
67. Commonwealth Games swimming silver medallist and national surf lifesaving champion who won Gold Coast Bulletin Local Sports Star award in 2018 (6).
68. Inaugural winner who is one of only three Gold Coast-trained horses to take out Magic Millions 2YO Classic (8). 70. Young Japanese player who beat Serena Williams in 2018 US Open tennis women’s singles final (5).
74. Home country of Gold Coast Suns AFL player Pearce Hanley (7).
75. Brothers who have played for Gold Coast in AFL at different times since Suns’ inception (6).
76. Former Queensland jockey who rode Makybe Diva to her historic three Melbourne Cup wins (4).
79. Former Maroons player who coached Queensland Origin rugby league team in 2004 and 2005 (5).
82. Former Australian netball captain, – von Bertouch, abbrev (3).
83. Gold Coast product who scored for Socceroos in World Cup qualifiying matches in 2013 and 2015 (3).
85. Member of elite group of Australian golfers to win a major, – Nagle (3).
88. Nickname of Australian cricketer Shaun Marsh (3).
89. Victorian teenage golfer who won 2015 Australian Ladies Masters at Royal Pines and represented Australia at 2016 Olympics (2).
SOLUTION ***** MONDAY