| MAORI | In New Zealand, it means "normal" |
| WEKA | It is a flightless rail bird that lives in New Zealand. Its diet includes seeds, fruit, mice, eggs, and insects, and it scavenges in garbage bins. |
| HOKEYPOKEY | Ice-cream flavour in New Zealand or the dance in which 'you put your left foot in, you put your left |
| LUPIN | Cottage garden perennial plant with spikes of flowers in all colours growing in all parts of the world, notably the shores of Lake Tekapo in New Zealand (5) |
| NAPIER | A city in New Zealand or a county in New South Wales (6) |
| SPUD | The first ever appearance in print of what slang term for a potato was in E J Wakefield's 1845 "Adventure in New Zealand"? (4) |
| WETA | World's heaviest insect, found in New Zealand, or New Zealand special-effects company (4) |
| MOA | It can't take flight in New Zealand |
| OTAGO | Old books, in the past collected here in New Zealand? |
| BISHOPAUCKLAND | Man somewhere in New Zealand ? or town in Durham? |
| TAKAPU | Put in "Also known as" a bird in New Zealand |
| TEKANAWA | Kiri ---, operatic soprano born in New Zealand in 1944 |
| HAMILTON | Town in S. Lanarkshire and city in New Zealand (8) |
| CLUTHA | Gold-bearing watercourse; the second-longest river in New Zealand and longest in the South Island (6) |
| WELLINGTON | One pulls it over a calf - in New Zealand, that is (10) |
| REEFTON | First town in New Zealand to receive electricity, in 1888 (7) |
| TOUR | A guided look at a jade factory? Could be in other places in New Zealand too (4,4) |
| SNELL | Peter, Olympic middle-distance runner, born in New Zealand in 1938 (5) |
| SHEEP | Their population in New Zealand peaked at 70 million in 1982 |
| STOKES | Ben, English Test cricketer born in New Zealand in 1991 (6) |
