Fruit and Veg

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 4. Green plant covering lawns (5)
  2. 6. Mildly acid red or yellow pulpy fruit eaten as a vegetable (6)
  3. 8. Citrus fruit that shares its name with a color (6)
  4. 10. Sweet and hot varieties of fruits of plants of the genus Capsicum (plural) (7)
  5. 11. The part of the earth's surface consisting of humus and disintegrated rock (4)
  6. 12. Any of various low perennial herbs with many runners and bearing white flowers followed by edible (plural) (12)

Down

  1. 1. Long yellow fruit with a peel (plural) (7)
  2. 2. Colorful blooms that grow on plants (7)
  3. 3. The main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants (plural) (5)
  4. 5. Any of numerous trees and shrubs producing a small fleshy round fruit with a single hard stone (plural) (7)
  5. 7. Bulbous plant having hollow leaves cultivated worldwide for its rounded edible bulb (5)
  6. 9. Any of various cultivars of the genus Brassica oleracea grown for their edible leaves or flowers (7)
  7. 13. Tall plants with trunks and leaves (5)
  8. 14. Round red or green fruit that grows on trees (plural) (6)