Australia

[Ternigapp]

All answers are connected with Australia:

1. Can't score goals here (5)

2. Mexican style rugged stone (4,4)

3. Dark elegant bird (5,4)

4. Untruthful flier (8)

5. Male goat outlawed person from the IOM (3,5)

Thanks for any help

[BourneStupid]

Could 5 be Ned Kelly?

[valerieb1254]

3) Black Swan.......A swan with black plumage and red beak, native to Australia.

[valerieb1254]

4) Lyre-Bird......either of two Australian passerine groung-dwelling birdsof the genus Menura about the size of a pheasant

[scotstone]

2 Wave Rock - A rock formation in Western Australia

[Ternigapp]

valerieb1254 - I think the answer is more likely to be black swan, thanks

scotstone - thanks

BourneStupid - Probably, I understand outlawed person & Kelly from the IOM but don't get the Ned and male goat part of the clue!

[lelliej]

1. Olgas, Rocks near Uluru in red centre

[Ternigapp]

Thanks lelliej, the nearest I got was lagos - not even in Australia!

[Ternigapp]

Sorry valerieb1254, I've just realised that you've given me the answer for both nos 3&4 and not just 2 answers for no3. You'll have to excuse me because I'm full of cold and feel woolly headed!

Thanks again

[Ternigapp]

Sorry valerieb1254 - Just realised you've given me the answers to both nos 3&4 and not just two answers for no3. You'll have to excuse me as I'm full of cold and feel quite wooly headed!

Thanks again

[Ternigapp]

Don't know what happened there!!

[scotstone]

1.Gabba? Queensland's cricket ground in Brisbane.

[BourneStupid]

Hello again - I found Neddy as an informal name for a donkey (male).

http://www.isle-of-man.com/interests/genealogy/kelly.htm

has a poem called Kelly from the Isle of Man, which may solve that part of the clue.