moari
Across
- 2. (gift, present (usually money, can be food or precious items, given by guest to hosts) )
- 3. (to delay, to wait, to hold off to allow maturation of plans etc. )
- 7. (New Zealander of non-Māori descent, usually European)
- 8. (the art and practise of speech-making )
- 10. (large, many, big)
- 13. (person of chiefly rank, boss )
- 15. (genealogy, to recite genealogy )
- 16. (clan, sub-tribe; to be born )
- 19. (island)
- 20. reo (language nest, Maori immersion pre-school (0 to 4 years))
- 21. (water)
- 24. (sacred, not to be touched, to be avoided because sacred, taboo)
- 25. (indigenous inhabitants of New Zealand, the language of the indigenous inhabitants of New Zealand)
- 26. (walk)
- 28. (woman, wife)
- 30. (treasured possessions or cultural items, anything precious)
- 31. (prestige, reputation)
- 33. (elder)
- 36. (sea)
- 38. (native flightless bird)
- 39. (river)
- 40. (work or activity)
- 42. (tribe)
Down
- 1. (reptiles endemic to New Zealand and which, although resembling most lizards, are part of a distinct lineage, the order Rhynchocephalia)
- 2. (food)
- 3. tupuna (ancestor )
- 4. (man, husband, men, husbands)
- 5. (land, homeland)
- 6. (hill fort)
- 7. (greenstone, jade)
- 8. (extended family)
- 9. (prayer)
- 11. (extinct large flightless bird)
- 12. (daughter)
- 14. reo Māori (the Māori Language)
- 15. (song or chant)
- 17. (belly, stomach)
- 18. (large native conifer)
- 19. (guests, visitors)
- 21. (canoe, canoe group)
- 22. (small)
- 23. (gathering, meeting)
- 27. (mountain)
- 29. (generic term for Māori dance. )
- 30. (children)
- 32. maki makiaki
- 34. (the area for formal discourse in front of a meeting house, or applied to a whole marae complex)
- 35. (son, young man, youth)
- 37. (funeral)
- 41. (traditional feast prepared in earth oven)