Darwin and Other States

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Across
  1. 3. Granite peaks interrupting the plains north of Geelong.
  2. 5. World Heritage country east of the Territory capital.
  3. 6. Goldfields town with artistic connections to the Lindsay family.
  4. 8. The stretch of water keeping Tasmania decidedly separate.
  5. 10. Older name for the Victorian ranges long called the Grampians.
  6. 12. Peninsula where vines, mussels and seaside towns meet.
  7. 14. Australia's rooftop honours a hero from somewhere else.
  8. 16. The river through Adelaide that Kaurna people know as Karrawirra Parri.
  9. 17. Australian town where the sensible direction for building is down.
  10. 21. Fibre once central to Geelong's fortune.
  11. 26. A South Australian-sounding waterway found thousands of kilometres north.
  12. 27. Adelaide's pedestrian strip where retail replaced traffic.
  13. 28. Darwin coastline where markets and sunsets share the weekend.
  14. 30. South Australian peninsula carrying a Frenchman's name.
  15. 31. The bay around which much of Geelong grew.
  16. 33. Latin provides a remarkably accurate description of this southern plain.
  17. 37. Southernmost mainland Australia, if you don't mind shortening the name.
  18. 38. Ballarat lake with an Olympic rowing past.
  19. 39. Adelaide beach suburb that reads the same coming home.
  20. 41. A German name preserved in the Adelaide Hills.
  21. 42. Gold transformed this Victorian settlement faster than its weather changes.
  22. 44. Miners gathered here before Australia's best-known stockade.
Down
  1. 1. Wine country whose heritage arrived with nineteenth-century European settlers.
  2. 2. Darwin suburb where Saturday begins with laksa.
  3. 4. Northern capital named for a naturalist who never set foot there.
  4. 7. A town whose famous gorge carries another, older name.
  5. 9. Historic town keeping watch near the bay's narrow entrance.
  6. 11. A piece of paper worth fighting over in 1854.
  7. 13. Australia's planned southern capital surrounded rather than divided by parkland.
  8. 15. A hurried barricade that outlived the battle it protected.
  9. 18. A river that spends much of its journey being a state border.
  10. 19. Adelaide looks considerably smaller from here.
  11. 20. Magnetic builders share this Top End wilderness with waterfalls.
  12. 22. Planned city living in Darwin's southern shadow.
  13. 23. Victoria's second city, facing Corio rather than Port Phillip proper.
  14. 24. Between two Victorian cities, aircraft gather here in spectacular fashion.
  15. 25. Darwin sands better known when the sun is going down.
  16. 29. Christmas visitor that almost erased a capital.
  17. 32. Geelong residents who have called Kardinia Park home since the nineteenth century.
  18. 34. Northern islands where football and art both speak loudly.
  19. 35. Ship connecting Darwin the man with Darwin the city.
  20. 36. Yesterday's gold rush rebuilt for today's visitors.
  21. 40. Five letters remembered through a stockade and a flag.
  22. 43. Where the Surf Coast begins and famous surf brands were born.
  23. 44. Water winding through Geelong before meeting the sea.