News 31 OCT 2025

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Across
  1. 2. The youth-driven increase in burglaries in Victoria is being driven by a group of 45 young so-called “crime _____”
  2. 3. Militant group JNIM (an affiliate of Al Qaeda) is reportedly on the brink of seizing control of which African country?
  3. 7. Which Austrian/American former politician was in the news recently slamming politicians for redrawing electoral maps in the USA (SURNAME)
  4. 8. A 17-year-old Melbourne teenager has died recently after being struck in the neck by a ball during training. What sport was the teenager playing?
  5. 10. Catherine Connolly was recently elected president of which nation?
  6. 11. What was the name of the category five hurricane that made landfall in Jamaica this week?
  7. 12. Which major city has employed 11 private “community safety officers” to patrol its CBD in response to rising violent crime?
Down
  1. 1. Oscar Piastri lost the lead of the Formula 1 drivers' championship in the Mexico City Grand Prix. Who took his place at the top of the standings? (FIRSTNAMESURNAME)
  2. 4. Nine Queensland high schools were found to have taught year 12 students the wrong topic for their external ancient history exams on Julius Caesar. Who did the students expect the exam would be about? (FIRSTNAME)
  3. 5. A U.S.–Australia deal recently signed, aims to reduce global reliance on which country’s dominance of rare-earth processing?
  4. 6. What is suspected to have caused this damage to Whyalla vet Andrew Melville-Smith’s windscreen when he was travelling along the Augusta Highway?
  5. 9. What unusual gift did South Korean President Lee Jae Myung give US President Donald Trump on the sidelines of the APEC summit?