Chinese Cooking

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 2. Small slender-bodied chiefly marine decapod crustaceans with a long tail and single pair of pincers (6)
  2. 7. Widely cultivated American plant cultivated in tropical and warm regions (6)
  3. 8. Thin folded wafer containing a maxim on a slip of paper (plural) (14)
  4. 9. A light midafternoon meal of ___ and sandwiches or cakes (3)
  5. 10. Erect bushy hairy annual herb having trifoliate leaves and purple to pink flowers (3)
  6. 12. Cattle that are reared for their meat (4)
  7. 13. A movable organ for flying (plural) (5)
  8. 15. A pan used for frying foods (7)
  9. 16. A spoon-shaped vessel with a long handle (5)

Down

  1. 1. Small white grains grown in wet fields (4)
  2. 3. Sweet and hot varieties of fruits of plants of the genus Capsicum (6)
  3. 4. A turner with a narrow flexible blade (7)
  4. 5. Tropical American evergreen tree bearing kidney-shaped nuts that are edible only when roasted (plural) (7)
  5. 6. A savory sauce of vinegar and soy sauce and spices (14)
  6. 11. Farm bird that lays eggs (7)
  7. 14. Slippery liquid used for cooking and fuel (3)