Food (3)

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 1. A dish served as the last course of a meal (plural) (6)
  2. 3. Sweet and hot varieties of fruits of plants of the genus Capsicum (6)
  3. 4. Farm bird that lays eggs (7)
  4. 8. White seasoning found in the sea (4)
  5. 10. Citrus fruit that shares its name with a color (6)
  6. 12. Sweet brown treat made from cacao beans (9)
  7. 13. Bulbous plant having hollow leaves cultivated worldwide for its rounded edible bulb (5)
  8. 15. Back and sides of a hog salted and dried or smoked (5)
  9. 16. A light midafternoon meal of ___ and sandwiches or cakes (3)

Down

  1. 2. Large bird eaten at Thanksgiving (6)
  2. 5. Any of various cultivars of the genus Brassica oleracea grown for their edible leaves or flowers (7)
  3. 6. Perennial plant widely cultivated as an annual in many varieties for its long conical orange edible (6)
  4. 7. Cattle that are reared for their meat (4)
  5. 9. Mildly acid red or yellow pulpy fruit eaten as a vegetable (6)
  6. 11. Annual native to South America having underground stolons bearing edible starchy tubers (6)
  7. 14. Clear liquid we drink that falls as rain (5)