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HARD #39H Use logic and process of elimination to fill in the blank cells using the numbers 1 through 9. Each number can appear only once in each row, column and 3x3 block. Puzzle solution below.

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1. What is the traditional method of cooking for Māori, especially suited to feeding large numbers of people?

2. Māori introduced kiore and kurī to Aotearoa, both valuable sources of meat. What animals are they?

3. Māori did not make pottery, so how did they boil water?

4. How did Māori preserve large quantities of food?

5. What are the ingredients in the dish toroi?

6. When Pākehā settlers arrived in Aotearoa, Māori embraced the new foods they brought with them. Potatoes were easy to grow, and pigs could be fattened quickly, so pork, pūhā and potatoes became a new staple meal. What was this called?

7. Māori kai (food) is prepared using a combination of kai moana and kai whenua. What are these?

8. What is Rewena Pararoa and what is it made from?

9. Harakeke or New Zealand flax is a superfood, rich in omega-3. How is it available to use?

1. Dietary fibre (8)

7. Ground meat (5)

8. Writer and director of Whale Rider (5,4)

9. Cut off (3)

10. Weaving machine (4)

11. Look up to (6)

13. Christchurch’s former rugby ground (9,4)

15. Poorly (6)

16. Heroic (4)

18. Nap (inf) (3)

20. Person living next door (9)

21. Surname of an English baker who moved to New Zealand in 1921 and whose name is now a brand (5)

22. Aubergine (8)

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1. Of the kidneys (5)

2. Not identified (7)

3. Frozen rain (4)

4. Attention-seeking behaviour (13)

5. Corner (5)

6. Nag (7)

7. Indigenous people of the Chatham Islands (7)

12. Otago forest park (7)

13. Alternative name for tetanus (7)

14. Ancient wine jar (7)

15. Horrify (5)

17. Gold measurement (5)

19. Fried potato (4)

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10. Horopito has an amazing pepper-like taste that gives it its common name, the pepper tree. This is a New Zealand native and one that’s wild harvested. What Is horopito also good for?

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8. A traditional Māori sourdough, this delicious bread is made from Māori potatoes (taewa tutaekuri). 9. It is available as unrefined oil and as seasoning. 10. Horopito is extremely helpful for upset digestion and inflammation, is a form of pain relief, and helps encourage circulation

ANSWERS 1. The hāngī (earth oven). 2. Kiore (the Polynesian rat) and kurī (the Polynesian dog). 3. They placed a red-hot stone in a wooden bowl of liquid. 4. By drying it, fermenting it, or sealing it in fat. 5.Toroi is a dish made with fresh mussels and pūhā (sow thistle) .juice 6. A boil up.. 7. Kai moana (food from the sea) and kai whenua (food from the land).

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