High Potassium

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 5. A pear-shaped tropical fruit with green or blackish skin and rich yellowish pulp enclosing a single (7)
  2. 6. Climbing vine native to China (4)
  3. 8. Any of various low perennial herbs with many runners and bearing white flowers followed by edible (plural) (12)
  4. 9. Southwestern Asian plant widely cultivated for its succulent edible dark green leaves (7)
  5. 12. Sweet brown treat made from cacao beans (9)
  6. 14. Sweet juicy gritty-textured fruit available in many varieties (4)
  7. 15. Asian tree having clusters of usually white blossoms and edible fruit resembling the peach (plural) (8)
  8. 16. Citrus fruit that shares its name with a color (plural) (7)

Down

  1. 1. Any of numerous fruits of the gourd family having a hard rind and sweet juicy flesh (5)
  2. 2. A variety of muskmelon vine having fruit with a tan rind and orange flesh (10)
  3. 3. Annual native to South America having underground stolons bearing edible starchy tubers (6)
  4. 4. A tropical American plant bearing a large fleshy edible fruit with a terminal tuft of stiff leaves (9)
  5. 7. Strips of potato cooked in hot oil. (11)
  6. 10. Common name for an edible agaric (plural) (9)
  7. 11. Plant whose succulent young shoots are cooked and eaten as a vegetable (9)
  8. 13. To cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of (plural) (6)