Foods

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 1. Flavorful relish or dressing or topping served as an accompaniment to food (5)
  2. 3. Oval foods laid by hens (4)
  3. 5. Sweet and hot varieties of fruits of plants of the genus Capsicum (6)
  4. 6. Salty pink meat from a pig (3)
  5. 8. White seasoning found in the sea (4)
  6. 11. Farm bird that lays eggs (7)
  7. 13. An African melon (10)
  8. 15. Scaly swimmer that breathes through gills (4)

Down

  1. 2. Perennial plant widely cultivated as an annual in many varieties for its long conical orange edible (6)
  2. 4. Any of various low perennial herbs with many runners and bearing white flowers followed by edible (10)
  3. 5. Chop cut from a hog (plural) (9)
  4. 7. Southwestern Asian plant widely cultivated for its succulent edible dark green leaves (7)
  5. 9. A small, round, edible fruit with dark-blue skin. (9)
  6. 10. Bulbous plant having hollow leaves cultivated worldwide for its rounded edible bulb (5)
  7. 12. Sweet baked dessert for birthdays (4)
  8. 14. White drink that comes from cows (4)