| GOLDMINE | Feature of Kalgoorlie WA (4,4) |
| SOUTHERNCROSS | Goldfields town west of Kalgoorlie (8,5) |
| ORE | Source of eg iron and gold close to Kalgoorlie |
| COOLGARDIE | Old gold town near Kalgoorlie (10) |
| IRK | Trouble in fair Kalgoorlie |
| ROOKIE | New recruit, Aussie native, beginner from Kalgoorlie that is |
| WESTERNAUSTRALIA | State where Kalgoorlie and Coolgardie are located (7,9) |
| WOLFGANG | The W of composer WA Mozart |
| DRAWBACK | The disadvantage of being back in WA to a doctor (8) |
| POWHATAN | Indian chief also known as Wa-hun-sen-a-cawh |
| MARGARET | WA beach where Nat Fyfe surfed amid COVID-19 lockdown, ... River (8) |
| VILLAINY | In 5.2, Othello tells Emilia, Iago's wife, that Iago said that Desdemona was false. Emilia sees that Othello has killed Desdemona. Emilia goes out to the street and confronts Iago. She finds out it wa |
| THWACKED | Ketch damaged around WA island, ultimately is hit hard (8) |
| BYTHEWAY | In passing empty bay, they moved around WA? (2,3,3) |
| RODMARSH | 1970s WA and Test keeper who died in 2022 (3,5) |
| KALBARRI | Weekend at a little pub mid-trip to WA town (8) |
| SPOONER | WA, English clergyman renowned for his transposition of the initial consonants of a pair of words in |
| STEPHEN | A Brief History Of Time, the book about the universe of which we read little and understood less, wa |
| TOBEORNOT | Jack Benny and Carole Lombard were the stars of this film about a group of Polish actors in World Wa |
| NGUGI | "Father of decolonising the mind" , writer _ wa Thiong'o of (5) |