Food

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 5. Any of various juicy fruit of the genus Vitis with green or purple skins (5)
  2. 6. A pear-shaped tropical fruit with green or blackish skin and rich yellowish pulp enclosing a single (7)
  3. 8. Any of various low perennial herbs with many runners and bearing white flowers followed by edible (plural) (12)
  4. 9. Cultivated in temperate regions (plural) (7)
  5. 11. Annual native to South America having underground stolons bearing edible starchy tubers (6)
  6. 13. Any of various edible seeds of plants of the family Leguminosae used for food (plural) (5)

Down

  1. 1. Tropical American shrub or small tree having huge deeply palmately cleft leaves and large oblong (6)
  2. 2. Seed of a pea plant used for food (plural) (4)
  3. 3. Animal reproductive body consisting of an ovum or embryo together with nutritive and protective (3)
  4. 4. An African melon (10)
  5. 7. Sweet juicy gritty-textured fruit available in many varieties (4)
  6. 9. Sweet and hot varieties of fruits of plants of the genus Capsicum (6)
  7. 10. Large evergreen tropical tree cultivated for its large oval fruit (5)
  8. 12. Bulbous plant having hollow leaves cultivated worldwide for its rounded edible bulb (5)