NEW ZEALAND CROSSWORD

Across

5. Stadium (5)

8. Name of the 3000km walking track from Cape Reinga to Bluff (2,6)

9/11. National women’s rugby team (5,5)

10. Innocuous (8)

11. See 9

14. Mountain parrot (3)

16. Rotorua Labour politician, ____ Coffey (6)

17. Romantic (6)

18. Father (3)

20. Tea break (colloq) (5)

24. Mix popular with trampers (8)

25. Imprecise (5)

26. Town known for its Wildfoods Festival (8)

27. Perfect (5)

Down

1. Scratchy (5)

2. Lynley Dodd’s Maclary character (5)

3. Large spoon (5)

4. Woolshed worker (colloq) (6)

6. Thankful (8)

7. Pet moniker (8)

12. Rural worker (8)

13. Whale-watching town (8)

14. Young goat (3)

15. Sum up (3)

19. Dairy brand owned by Fonterra (6)

21. Film (5)

22. Once more (5)

23. Slink (5)