Solve these clues to fill the grid.
- English essayist
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- Perennial plant widely cultivated as an annual in many varieties for its long conical orange edible
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- Highly seasoned minced meat stuffed in casings
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- A plant having a large edible head of crowded white flower buds
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- Quacking water bird
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- Large bird eaten at Thanksgiving
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- Thin fried slices of potato eaten as a snack
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- Cattle that are reared for their meat
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- Annual native to South America having underground stolons bearing edible starchy tubers (plural)
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- Farm bird that lays eggs
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- Any new growth of a plant such as a new branch or a bud (plural)
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- Meat from a domestic hog or pig
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- Seed of a pea plant used for food (plural)
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