| BALLARAT | Mining and sheep-farming centre in Victoria, Australia (8) |
| MODESTO | Farming centre of California's Central Valley (7) |
| BENDIGO | Former gold-mining town in Victoria, Australia (7) |
| GEELONG | Port on Corio Bay in Victoria, Australia (7) |
| BLUESTONE | Variety of basalt found in Victoria, Australia, used as a building stone (9) |
| YARRA | River in Victoria, Australia, which flows westward to Melbourne (5) |
| MELBOURNE | city in Victoria, Australia |
| DOMINATING | The "Toad" is in to mining and being in complete control |
| EWES | Key points in sheep farming! (4) |
| RAM | He's of paramount importance in sheep farming |
| FOLD | Make double (in sheep farming?) (4) |
| LONRHO | Company founded in 1909 as the London and Rhodesian Mining and Land Company (6) |
| RUHR | The chief coal mining and industrial region in Germany (4) |
| SHEAR | Do a sheep-farming chore |
| OPENPIT | Like some mining and barbecues |
| MALIGNING | Have a convict mining and he's soon defaming you (9) |
| THREEDECKER | If Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing merged with a maker of power tools, they'd be |
| INDRI | Madagascan animal which is endangered due to deforestation, illegal sapphire mining and hunting; the world's largest living lemur (5) |
| 3M | Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company shortened its name to what alphanumeric brand? (1,1) |
| SNOWY | ? River, stream that flows into the Bass Strait near Orbost, Victoria, Australia (5) |
