Mega CASH WORD
ACROSS
1 Enclose or enfold
completely ( 7)
5 Board game of strategic
skill (5)
8 Spirited and determined (6)
11 Favourable slant given to presentation of information (4)
15 _____ Lane, Kiwi dancer
and choreographer (5)
16 Convert from one language
into another (9)
17 See Mystery Clue
18 Strange and spooky (5)
19 Japanese dish of thinly
sliced raw fish ( 7) 21 Large country house
with land (5)
22 Dull greyish-brown
colour (3)
23 Annoying and tedious ( 7)
25 Muscles, nerves, skin,
fat etc (4,6)
27 Quick and skilful (6)
29 Having extreme irrational
fear of something (6)
32 Cerebos _____ Ltd – New Zealand food and beverage company producing well-known coffee brand (6) 33 With daring courage (10) 35 Place in grave or tomb (5)
37 Ribonucleic acid present
in all living cells (1,1,1)
38 Without difficulty or
hesitation ( 7)
39 Rock like quartz, eg ( 7)
42 Large group of flying
insects (5)
44 Plant fibre used for making
baskets and hats (5)
46 Watch carefully and
attentively ( 7)
48 Lake _____ – New Zealand lake in South Island artificially created in 1960s
as part of dam construction ( 7)
50 Metal food container (3)
51 Large, short-tailed lemur
of Madagascar (5)
53 Undergo or live through (10)
55 Round solid shape (6)
57 Hard white substance covering the crown of tooth (6)
58 See lower left photo (6)
59 See Mystery Clue
62 Male geese ( 7)
63 ___ dog – successful person who is charge (3) 65 Those who lead prayers in mosques (5)
66 Transport hub ( 7)
68 Very pale with shock or illness (5)
70 ___ McGlashan, Kiwi composer, singer and multi-instrumentalist (3) 71 Made to feel isolated or estranged (9) 73 Communicate via Twitter (5) 74 Worker hired on nonpermanent basis (4) 75 Abdominal organ forming part of immune system (6) 76 Of doubtful quality
or legality (5)
77 Applies bandages
to wound ( 7)
DOWN
1 Amount that is more
than necessary (6)
2 Openings for escape
of gas or air (5)
3 ___ down the law – speak authoritatively or dictatorially (3)
4 _____ Grace, Kiwi writer of
novels and short stories (8)
5 Informal word for tea (3)
6 Intrinsic nature of
something ( 7)
7 Access between storeys
in house (9)
8 Area of open pasture
land (5)
9 Increase in strength
or effect (9)
10 Get ___ ___ – be annoyed
and sulk (3,3)
12 Below ___ – worse than
usual or expected (3)
13 Female family relative (5)
14 See upper right photo (10) 20 Whole number that is not a fraction ( 7)
21 See Mystery Clue
24 Path of one object around another in space (5)
26 Held outdoors (4-3)
28 Out of practice (5)
30 _____ Peninsula – popular New Zealand holiday spot on east coast of North
Island (10)
31 Behaving in determined,
forceful way (10)
34 ___ of sunshine – happy person who cheers others up (3)
36 Lower part of interior wall decorated differently from upper part (4)
39 Long wooden rod used
when playing billiards (3)
40 Stubbornly persisting and
refusing to give up (9)
41 Spoils plundered from
raid (4)
43 Decorative and architectural
style of 1920s & ’30s (3,4)
45 Nickname of New Zealand women’s national cricket team (5,5) 47 Develop fully like fruits
do (5)
48 The ___’s knees – something
outstandingly good (3)
49 Make stronger and more
confident ( 7)
52 Pipe for waste water (5)
53 State of being (9)
54 Put right or corrected (9)
56 Thought of in specific
way (8)
59 Hare-_____ – rash and
ill-judged ( 7)
60 Exhausted supply (4,2)
61 Relative position or
standing (6)
62 _____ Robertson,
New Zealand Minister of Finance (5)
64 Small, edible marine
crustacean (5)
67 Periods of play in cricket (5)
69 Make tuneful noise through
closed lips (3)
72 ___-out – test of potential
and suitability (3)
73 ___ in – fit together harmoniously or effectively (3)