Across
- 4. Carry burden with misshapen holder
- 5. Predator when the chips are down
- 9. Car brand mad about a zingy start
- 17. Novel woman taking in every man initially
- 19. Subject that adds up? Smart shuffle!
- 22. Continental voyage — pure scenic route!
- 23. Setter crafting tests
- 24. Apparel for those who keep going
- 26. One who parks erratically, perhaps?
- 27. Suburb where feline hid oddly
- 28. Place that seems like a whole valley of paradise
- 31. Spellers near the stumps
- 33. Descendants of grandeur? Held in rich land, oddly!
- 34. Award for actor — so arcane!
- 37. Supermarket lady with ticking style?
- 38. Covering the flank
- 39. Festive plant found in hotly contested garden
- 40. Fair type found in bold, neat disguise
- 44. Eternally conservative
- 45. Amply Eager shuffled like tiles on a tabletop
- 47. Relative seen in crisis, tears!
- 48. Group connected by blood in a film, oddly rearranged
- 52. Country made from camera, I use parts
- 54. person providing outstanding rides
- 55. Sport played inside — trick or card in it!
- 56. One who takes a drag
- 57. Apartment provided by local authority
- 58. Where dark shades meet the shoreline
- 60. NZ region found in land this is ours, oddly
- 61. Coastal town where a man with a hat wanders, confused!
- 62. Trowel wielding green-fingered professional
- 63. Sport that's served with spin, perhaps?
- 64. Slam event where bowled men win!
Down
- 1. Group making sure empress is overturned
- 2. Woman mends laid fabric irregularly
- 3. One who tracks volumes — sounds like a librarian’s job!
- 6. Number fixing every ivy strangely?
- 7. Explorers job when stepping ashore and charting the area
- 8. Unique deals — clip sales, oddly!
- 10. A country with a tail — it’s aural, strangely!
- 11. Hard guest rearranged for female offspring
- 12. Singer needing one line in code rearranged
- 13. One liberated — man free to roam!
- 14. Creations from your own oven
- 15. Place for reading — by rally, perhaps?
- 16. Place where dough rises, possibly by key arrangement
- 18. Auckland school gets cool, elegant training — go to class!
- 20. Shattered – one might say the frames in pieces
- 21. Spectacles seen in gala's mess
- 25. Actor with direction in a forest
- 29. Siblings in trouble? Herb rots!
- 30. Ship name found in a wane gall, oddly rearranged!
- 32. Crooner gets wild after drinking gin, oddly
- 35. Rustic tracks where one might lose a tyre – especially near Sienna
- 36. Noel newcomer; small gift
- 41. Cold junction in Auckland suburb?
- 42. Royal suburb where grains hide in ham sandwich?
- 43. Game played inside — no blind art, oddly!
- 46. Spicy biscuits made from sun, tiger, and gin — scrambled!
- 48. Island where jiff is shaken
- 49. A sore ring for one who plans things
- 50. Return support
- 51. Royal role assignment? Grand act is clever!
- 53. Sailor with bulging arms eats spinach, reportedly!
- 59. Language heard when shown a mistake is corrected