| HILLARY | Which New Zealander conquered Everest in 1953? (7) |
| EDMUNDHILLARY | Which New Zealander conquered Everest in 1953? (6,7) |
| TENZING | Sherpa who accompanied Edmund Hillary to the summit of Everest in 1953 (7) |
| BONDAGE | Slavery in which spies have lived since 1953? |
| SHERPAS | Members of a Himalayan people, 16 of whom died in an avalanche in the "popcorn field" of Everest in |
| MALLORY | George, English mountaineer who disappeared on Mount Everest in 1924 (7) |
| MESSNER | Reinhold, Italian mountaineer and explorer who made the first solo ascent of Mount Everest in 1980 (7) |
| NETBALL | Sport in which New Zealand has been the world champion five times, most recently in 2019 (7) |
| ARCHERY | Sport in which New Zealand has one Commonwealth Games gold medal (7) |
| THOUGHT | ___ shower, a discussion in which new ideas are generated (7) |
| HIGHJUMP | Event in which New Zealander Hamish Kerr became the Olympic champion in 2024 (4,4) |
| EDMUND | New Zealand mountaineer who successfully climbed Mount Everest in 1953, Sir _ Hilary (6) |
| NORGAY | Edmund Hillary and Tenzing ___ conquered Mount Everest in 1953. (6) |
| ROSWELL | A crash in 1947 near which New Mexico town is thought by some to have been a UFO? (7) |
| ENDOGEN | Formerly, a plant such as a monocotyledon in which new wood develops within the stem, with no differentiation into wood and bark (7) |
| SAILING | Sport in which New Zealand has won at least one medal at the last five Summer Olympics (7) |
| HANSKREBS | Which German-born British biochemist won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1953? (4,5) |
| TOHEROA | Which New Zealand shellfish has a soup named after it? (7) |
| MADISON | Which New York avenue is associated with the advertising world? (7) |
| HOEDOWN | Dance for which new hood may be required (7) |
