Cerials

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 3. Grains of common ___ (5)
  2. 6. A flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddle (8)
  3. 7. Yellow vegetable that grows in ears (4)
  4. 9. An essential structural component of living cells and source of energy for animals (12)
  5. 11. Baked food made from flour, used for sandwiches (5)
  6. 13. Any of several elongated, threadlike cells (5)
  7. 14. Small white grains grown in wet fields (4)
  8. 15. Sweet baked dessert for birthdays (plural) (5)

Down

  1. 1. Of or relating to or derived from wheat (9)
  2. 2. Corn having small ears and kernels that burst when exposed to dry heat (7)
  3. 4. Tall annual cereal grass bearing kernels on large ears: widely cultivated in America in many (5)
  4. 5. Small round bread leavened with baking-powder or soda (plural) (8)
  5. 8. Cultivated since prehistoric times (6)
  6. 10. Annual grass of Europe and North Africa (plural) (4)
  7. 11. A general name for alcoholic beverages made by fermenting a cereal flavored with hops (4)
  8. 12. Broken husks of the seeds of cereal grains that are separated from the flour by sifting (4)