| SUEZCANAL | Cut out of New Zealand as a clue (4,5) |
| REGALLILY | Flower of the family Liliaceae, known in New Zealand as Christmas lily (5,4) |
| STANZA | South Africa includes thanks to New Zealand as part of a poem (6) |
| REDPINE | Tree known in New Zealand as rimu (3,4) |
| LATESTART | Result of oversleeping (read each starred answer as a clue for a single letter!) |
| WRONGDOER | As a clue for "rode", it's a bad 'un! (9) |
| EARLYBIRD | Almost out of new porridge, one will surely get the breakfast (5,4) |
| APOSTOLIC | Cast polio out of New Testament characters (9) |
| MIDDLEMAN | One who may be cut out, and what must be cut out of five answers to make sense of their clues |
| LEVITICUS | Priest is cut out of the Old Testament book |
| CRYPTIC | From Greek for "hidden", a word for something mysterious, obscure, occult, puzzling or secret, such as a clue in an enigmatic crossword of the same name; or, the camouflaging colouring of certain anim |
| ALCAEUS | Poet friend of Sappho anagram of AS A CLUE |
| CATALOGUES | Lists got as a clue for a change |
| NONSENSEVERSES | Some of Lear maybe serves as a clue? |
| ANSWER | The response is a return out of New South Wales (6) |
| ACADEMIC | Don is a rascal, taking the inside out of new microphone (8) |
| BADAPPLE | Soldier turned out of New York for a day; was he corrupting the others? |
| OVERSTEP | Go too far as a clue to cats and dogs? (8) |
| LOANABLE | Can be advanced as a clue (8) |
| SURFACES | Comes up with, as a clue, "The best on board" (8) |
