Geoffrey Rush, or GR, is as cool as I thought; he too loves a DA cryptic, as this excerpt from an Age article attests:

He is, for instance, addicted to the cryptic crossword in Friday’s Age by “DA” (David Astle) – so much so, he insists that overseas friends who like crosswords access it online. (“He’s the Sergeant Pepper of cryptic crosswords. A complete mindfuck.”)