| INFLATE | Part of the Dunedin flat electrically unsafe. Blow it up! (7) |
| SEDUCE | Tempt the Dunedin urban council leaders in the diocese (6) |
| BALLOON | You blow it up and it floats (7) |
| MOERAKI | Coastal township 75km north of Dunedin where Keri Hulme lived while writing the Booker Prize-winning novel The Bone People (7) |
| DISRUPT | Rest in peace in the dust? Break it up! (7) |
| BANDAGE | For such musicians, it's time to wrap it up! (7) |
| STKILDA | Remote Scottish island, also the name of a Dunedin suburb and an Australian Rules team (2,5) |
| MOSGIEL | Large suburb of Dunedin (7) |
| MINE | An excavation for the extraction of coal, gems and ores; the "gallery" of an insect in a leaf; or, historically, a passage under a besieged fortress to give secret ingress or to blow it up (4) |
| MUSHTAQ | Pakistan Test cricketer who hit 201 against New Zealand at Dunedin in 1973 (7,8) |
| CURLING | Ice sport played in Naseby, Dunedin, Gore and Auckland (7) |
| FRIZELL | Shannon ....... , loose forward; 2018 New Zealand Test debutant against France in Dunedin (7) |
| EMERSON | Richard _, beer enthusiast who started a craft brewery, named after himself, in Dunedin in 1992 (7) |
| VOLCANO | Cool van? This will heat it up! (7) |
| ENFOLDS | Son who fled from danger? Just about wraps it up! (7) |
| OVERACT | A law concerning aircraft? Ham it up! (7) |
| OTEPOTI | Maori name for Dunedin (7) |
| COMPTON | N R D ?, England Test cricketer who made 117 against New Zealand in Dunedin in 2013 |
| STCLAIR | Dunedin beach popular for its surfing, cafes and hot water salt pools (2,5) |
| RECITAL | Let's clear it up! What a performance! |
