Thanksgiving Spelling

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 2. Big orange squash carved at Halloween (7)
  2. 6. Sweet baked dessert for birthdays (4)
  3. 9. Imperial dynasty that ruled China and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy (3)
  4. 10. The color of grass (5)
  5. 11. Fourth Thursday in November in the United States (12)
  6. 12. Annual native to South America having underground stolons bearing edible starchy tubers (plural) (8)
  7. 14. A silky densely piled fabric with a plain back (6)
  8. 15. Large bird eaten at Thanksgiving (6)
  9. 16. The color of a fire truck (3)

Down

  1. 1. Round red or green fruit that grows on trees (5)
  2. 3. A native or inhabitant of ___ (plural) (7)
  3. 4. One of the colonists from England who sailed to America on the Mayflower and founded the colony (plural) (8)
  4. 5. Any of various edible seeds of plants of the family Leguminosae used for food (plural) (5)
  5. 7. Pasta in the form of slender tubes (8)
  6. 8. Any of numerous shrubs of genus Vaccinium bearing ___ (9)
  7. 13. A dish served as the last course of a meal (5)