Food (2)

Name: ______________________ Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

1. Annual native to South America having underground stolons bearing edible starchy tubers (6)
3. Stalks eaten raw or cooked or used as seasoning (6)
5. Mildly acid red or yellow pulpy fruit eaten as a vegetable (6)
8. Small juicy fruit that grows in bunches (6)
11. A spread made from ground ___ (12)
12. Orange vegetables that rabbits love (7)
15. Any of numerous fruits of the gourd family having a hard rind and sweet juicy flesh (5)
16. Sweet edible dark-blue berries of either low-growing or high-growing ___ plants (plural) (11)

2. Edible bulbs with a strong smell, often used in cooking. (6)
4. A custard-like food made from curdled milk (6)
6. Citrus fruit that shares its name with a color (plural) (7)
7. An African melon (10)
9. Any of various low perennial herbs with many runners and bearing white flowers followed by edible (plural) (12)
10. Marrow squash plant whose fruit are eaten when small (8)
13. Large bird eaten at Thanksgiving (6)
14. A melon vine of the genus ___ (8)