Food (2)

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 3. A slice of meat cut from the fleshy part of an animal or large fish (5)
  2. 5. Orange vegetables that rabbits love (7)
  3. 8. Annual native to South America having underground stolons bearing edible starchy tubers (plural) (8)
  4. 9. Round Italian dish with cheese and toppings (5)
  5. 11. Any of various low perennial herbs with many runners and bearing white flowers followed by edible (plural) (12)
  6. 12. Any of several elongated, threadlike cells (5)

Down

  1. 1. Long yellow fruit with a peel (plural) (7)
  2. 2. Sweet and hot varieties of fruits of plants of the genus Capsicum (plural) (7)
  3. 4. Plant whose succulent young shoots are cooked and eaten as a vegetable (9)
  4. 6. Round red or green fruit that grows on trees (plural) (6)
  5. 7. A plant having a large edible head of crowded white flower buds (11)
  6. 9. Old World tree having sweet gritty-textured juicy fruit (plural) (5)
  7. 10. Scaly swimmer that breathes through gills (4)