Across
- 3. The Rose city
- 5. Capital of NZ
- 7. A port city in Canterbury
- 10. One of the southern most cities
- 13. A haven for Brown Kiwi
- 14. The skiing capital of NZ
- 17. NZ's most northern city
- 18. Known for it's wine
- 20. Largest city in the South Island
- 22. Anagram of hymn plow ute
- 23. Was once a volcano, now a lake
- 24. Known for it geothermal activity
Down
- 1. The best place to see whales
- 2. Known for precious pounamu and gold
- 4. The student city
- 6. The city of sails
- 8. The entry to the South Island
- 9. Shares it's name with a bovine
- 11. In the bay of plenty
- 12. the first place to see the sun
- 15. Anglicised from the Māori name Ōtākou
- 16. Home to the towering Mitre Peak
- 18. Home to the Abel Tasman National Park
- 19. Named for a river with personhood
- 21. Nestled on the baks of the Waikato River