Food and Cooking

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 1. Any of numerous fruits of the gourd family having a hard rind and sweet juicy flesh (5)
  2. 4. Sweet brown treat made from cacao beans (9)
  3. 7. Any of various low perennial herbs with many runners and bearing white flowers followed by edible (plural) (12)
  4. 8. Climbing vine native to China (4)
  5. 10. A tropical American plant bearing a large fleshy edible fruit with a terminal tuft of stiff leaves (9)
  6. 11. Small juicy fruit that grows in bunches (6)
  7. 12. A thin ___ slice of potato fried in deep fat (plural) (6)
  8. 15. Any of several trees producing edible oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single hard stone (4)

Down

  1. 2. Citrus fruit that shares its name with a color (plural) (7)
  2. 3. Woody brambles bearing usually red but sometimes black or yellow fruits that separate from (plural) (11)
  3. 4. Thin fried slices of potato eaten as a snack (5)
  4. 5. Citrus tree bearing large round edible fruit having a thick yellow rind and juicy somewhat acid pulp (10)
  5. 6. Round Italian dish with cheese and toppings (5)
  6. 9. Frozen dessert containing cream and sugar and flavoring (8)
  7. 13. Downy juicy fruit with sweet yellowish or whitish flesh (5)
  8. 14. An edible ___ made with gelatin and used as a dessert or salad base or a coating for foods (5)