| 100% | CONCHORDS | 9 | Flight of the ___ (New Zealand comedy duo) |
| 57% | BRET | 4 | McKenzie of the musical comedy duo Flight of the Conchords |
| 56% | MOA | 3 | New Zealand bird of the past |
| 54% | KIWI | 4 | New Zealand bird about the size of a chicken |
| 54% | NAMBASSA | 8 | New Zealand hippie festivals of the 70s and 80s |
| 53% | HOBBITON | 8 | New Zealand tourist attraction for "Lord of the Rings" fans |
| 53% | ELAINE | 6 | May of the comedy duo Nichols and May |
| 52% | MAORI | 5 | One of the two official languages of New Zealand |
| 52% | SPOTTY | 6 | Perch-like fish of the wrasse family of New Zealand |
| 51% | TERN | 4 | The New Zealand fairy variety of this bird was down to less than 50 individuals in 2018 |
| 51% | ERNEST | 6 | ___ Rutherford, New Zealand physicist known as the father of nuclear physics |
| 50% | NGAIO | 5 | New Zealand writer Marsh, OBE recipient known as one of the "Queens of Crime" |
| 50% | RUTHERFORD | 10 | Ernest —, New Zealand-born winner of the 1908 Nobel Prize in Chemistry |
| 50% | SYRACUSE | 8 | New take on The Comedy of Errors: The Boys from __ |
| 49% | AUCKLAND | 8 | Seaport on North Island, New Zealand; capital of the country from 1840-65 |
| 49% | HILLARY | 7 | Edmund —, New Zealand explorer; first man to reach the summit of Mount Everest |
| 48% | RURU | 4 | Owl of New Zealand also called the morepork |
| 48% | EDMUNDHILLARY | 13 | New Zealand mountaineer who was one of the first two people to conquer Mount Everest: 2 wds. |
| 48% | MAORI | 5 | The tangata whenua of New Zealand |
| 48% | PEGASUSBAY | 10 | Inlet of the Pacific Ocean in South Island, New Zealand, formerly called Cook's Mistake |
| 48% | FERN | 4 | Houseplant featured on the back of the New Zealand dollar coin |
| 47% | RATA | 4 | New Zealand forest tree of the myrtle family with crimson flowers and hard wood such as the Northern — |
| 47% | TUI | 3 | New Zealand bird of the honeyeater family with a bluish-green plumage and white tuft under the throat |
| 47% | BIBLICAL | 8 | Of the New Testament, eg |
| 46% | ARDERN | 6 | Jacinda ___, New Zealand prime minister who, at 37, was the world's youngest female head of government |
| 46% | LENO | 4 | Follower of the news? |
| 46% | SPINDOCTOR | 10 | Interpreter of the news |
| 46% | LENO | 4 | Follower of the news |
| 46% | KATIE | 5 | Couric of the news |
| 46% | JACINDA | 7 | ___ Ardern, New Zealand politician who is the youngest woman to serve as the Prime Minister of New Zealand |