1. a) berates / rebates;  b) waste/sweat;  c) claimed/decimal
2. a) band;  b) will
3. Tamworth NSW
4. quire
5. Bugs Bunny
6.  Royal Routine Flush
7. Paris
8. C. 20th Century
9. Royal Coat of Arms
10. Four
11. Melanie Griffiths
12. Nepal
13. Anthropology
14. prayers
15. Aramaic
16. A butt (or barrel) of wine
17. Starlight Express
18. Rainy days and Mondays
19. Ronald Reagan
20. Indonesia
21. Jenny
22. 1992
23. He was a fictitious character – a hoax on the publisher
24. chicken
25. 24
26. So
27. saint
28. newspaper
29. pierces, precise
30. Tasmania