| WETA | World's heaviest insect, found in New Zealand, or New Zealand special-effects company (4) |
| ACCRA | Capital starts to affect company consolidating real accounts |
| KIWI | Flightless bird from New Zealand or a nickname for someone from New Zealand |
| HEBE | Greek goddess of youth, cupbearer of Olympus; a plant native to New Zealand; or, the protagonist in Mary Wesleys Harnessing Peacocks (4) |
| OTEA | Island near New Zealand, or beginning of a prayer to a brew |
| SWAN | One third of all known species of this bird are found in New Zealand (4) |
| MAKO | Shark found in New Zealand waters (4) |
| NAPIER | A city in New Zealand or a county in New South Wales (6) |
| HOKEYPOKEY | Ice-cream flavour in New Zealand or the dance in which 'you put your left foot in, you put your left |
| GNAT | Insect found in developing nations (4) |
| FLEA | Small insect found in trifle, alarmingly (4) |
| WASP | Stinging insect found in meadow as predicted (4) |
| MOTH | Insect found in the theme entries (and the subject of a famous joke told by Norm Macdonald) |
| ANTS | Insects found in restaurant sink (4) |
| RWENZORI | Right, you and I face New Zealand or Italy in the mountains (8) |
| BELLBIRD | Australasian songbird with a ringing call such as the New Zealand - or crested - (8) |
| MAORI | Get up this morning or I will be found in New Zealand (5) |
| MAORIS | Natives of New Zealand or Thailand once perhaps (6) |
| NGAIO | Small tree found in New Zealand with light wood and edible fruit (5) |
| KEA | The world's only alpine parrot, found in New Zealand |
