Thanksgiving (7)

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 2. Plant with dense clusters of tight green flower buds (8)
  2. 4. Annual native to South America having underground stolons bearing edible starchy tubers (plural) (8)
  3. 6. Pantropical vine widely cultivated in several varieties for its large ___ tuberous root (11)
  4. 7. Sweetened mixture of milk and eggs baked or boiled or frozen (7)
  5. 9. Yellow vegetable that grows in ears (4)
  6. 10. Any of various soft sweet desserts thickened usually with flour and baked or boiled or steamed (7)
  7. 11. A sauce made by adding stock, flour, or other ingredients to the juice and fat that drips (5)

Down

  1. 1. Fruit-flavored dessert made from a commercially prepared gelatin powder (5)
  2. 3. Any of numerous shrubs of genus Vaccinium bearing ___ (9)
  3. 5. A seasoned mixture placed inside food before cooking. (8)
  4. 8. Large bird eaten at Thanksgiving (6)