moari

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