Food (3)

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 2. A ribbonlike strip of pasta (plural) (7)
  2. 6. Mildly acid red or yellow pulpy fruit eaten as a vegetable (6)
  3. 10. Bulbous plant having hollow leaves cultivated worldwide for its rounded edible bulb (5)
  4. 11. A plant having a large edible head of crowded white flower buds (11)
  5. 13. Frozen dessert containing cream and sugar and flavoring (8)
  6. 15. Sweet and hot varieties of fruits of plants of the genus Capsicum (6)
  7. 16. Any of various cultivars of the genus Brassica oleracea grown for their edible leaves or flowers (7)

Down

  1. 1. Annual native to South America having underground stolons bearing edible starchy tubers (6)
  2. 3. Two slices of bread with a filling between them (8)
  3. 4. Common name for an edible agaric (8)
  4. 5. A smooth-textured sausage of minced beef or pork usually smoked (6)
  5. 7. Edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous (9)
  6. 8. Yellow vegetable that grows in ears (4)
  7. 9. A sandwich consisting of a fried cake of minced beef served on a bun, often with other ingredients (9)
  8. 12. Highly seasoned minced meat stuffed in casings (7)
  9. 14. A melon vine of the genus ___ (8)