Complete Clue List
Across
1. Exist.
3. The 'Silvercity Writing Tablet' was invented in 1902. It is now known as what?
7. Either one __ the other
9. Australians bred dogs like the Cattle Dog to be able to stand the . . . .
10. Australia first introduced the plastic bank . . . .
12. The 'Stripper', invented in Victoria, was a wheat . . . . . . . . .
14. God 'invented' Eve from one of these he took from Adam.
15. Unit of surface area equal to 100 square metres.
16. In 1934 a farmer's wife came up with the idea of this Aussie mode of transport
17. In 1958, what coloured 'box' was designed to record on board flight details?
19. If an invention works first time out then the inventor must be very ......
20. For example (abbreviation).
21. Not out
22. All inventions start with these, an . . . .
23. A small group of atoms.
26. The first 'Hills Hoist' was made of this (generic term).
28. U.S.variant of carat
29. Aussies are an inventive . . . . . (collective term).
32. Abbreviation for company
33. Regarding (contraction).
34. Australians invented a two-stroke model of this machine
36. Beer.
38. Maria Smith was responsible for a green one of these
40. In 1952 atomic tests were held on the Monte . . . . . Islands off Western Australia.
41. Australia's own fowl, the Australorp, . . . . lots of eggs
42. Reinventing the wheel is like creating something . . . .
43. In the world of inventions the CSIRO is somewhat of a . . . . . and shaker
45. In 1967 the CSIRO proposed a . . . . . . called Interscan (microwave landing process).
46. Prior to 1798, English whalers were . . . . . . but thereafter operated out of Sydney.
47. In 1876 the first Radiata Pine . . . . . was introduced to Australia.
Down
1. A tree that looks like it's growing upside down - one of God's inventions
2. Extraterrestrial (abbreviation).
4. Without this, you'd have to use your hands to paddle your own canoe!
5. Patented in Australia in 1889, initially for finding coal (Two Words, 8 & 5 letters)
6. Inventing can be very creative, some even call it an . . .
7. Not off
8. The 'Hills Hoist' is a . . . . . . clothes line, developed in 1945.
9. Australians have invented . . . . . . . strains of cotton and wheat.
11. Necessity is one . . . . . . . in the process of invention!
12. Who turned penicillin into a practical antibiotic drug (Two Words, 6 letters each)?
13. 12 Across is used for this (Two Words, 7 & 5 letters).
18. Australians, you might say, have a . . . . . for inventing
19. What eight down is.
24. Abbreviation for Information Technology.
25. Don't stay!
26. Australia is the only country in the world to have monotreme . . . . . . .
27. A person who is very skilled at something is an . . .
30. Contraction of representative.
31. The world's first . . . . . . . postage system was used in Sydney from 1838.
35. Australia's first state was New South . . . . .
36. Of the air (travel).
37. An invention must be useful or . . . . it's useless
39. In 1958 Lucas Heights opened, Australia's first reactor using nuclear . . . . .
44. In 1871, the first international telegram was received in Darwin . . . Java.