Vocabulary Exercise

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 2. Bulbous plant having hollow leaves cultivated worldwide for its rounded edible bulb (5)
  2. 4. Sweet food that grows on plants (5)
  3. 6. Any of various soft sweet desserts thickened usually with flour and baked or boiled or steamed (7)
  4. 7. Slippery liquid used for cooking and fuel (3)
  5. 8. Egg yolks and oil and vinegar (10)
  6. 10. A porous mass of interlacing fibers that forms the internal skeleton of various marine animals (6)
  7. 12. Meat from a deer used as food (7)
  8. 14. An edible emulsion of fat globules made by churning milk or cream (6)
  9. 15. The best people or things in a group (5)
  10. 16. Soft creamy white cheese (4)

Down

  1. 1. The practice or manner of preparing food or the food so prepared (7)
  2. 3. Aromatic Eurasian perennial (7)
  3. 5. Pasta in the form of slender tubes (8)
  4. 9. A custard-like food made from curdled milk (7)
  5. 11. Caramelized sugar cooled in thin sheets (6)
  6. 13. Sweet white crystals added to food (5)