Summer Fruits and Vegetables

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 3. Large evergreen tropical tree cultivated for its large oval fruit (5)
  2. 5. Round red or green fruit that grows on trees (5)
  3. 7. Marrow squash plant whose fruit are eaten when small (8)
  4. 8. A sticky adhesive that is smeared on small branches to capture small birds (4)
  5. 9. A melon vine of the genus ___ (8)
  6. 12. An African melon (10)
  7. 13. Any of various juicy fruit of the genus Vitis with green or purple skins (5)
  8. 14. Stalks eaten raw or cooked or used as seasoning (6)

Down

  1. 1. Citrus fruit that shares its name with a color (6)
  2. 2. Any of various plants of the genus Lactuca (7)
  3. 4. Variety or mutation of the peach bearing fruit with smooth skin and yellow flesh (9)
  4. 6. Any of several trees producing edible oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single hard stone (4)
  5. 8. Yellow oval fruit with juicy acidic flesh (5)
  6. 9. Any of numerous trees and shrubs producing a small fleshy round fruit with a single hard stone (6)
  7. 10. Long yellow fruit with a peel (6)
  8. 11. The fruit of a variety of winter melon vine (8)