Food

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 1. Liquid food especially of meat or fish or vegetable stock often containing pieces of solid food (4)
  2. 3. Any of numerous fruits of the gourd family having a hard rind and sweet juicy flesh (5)
  3. 6. Any of various low perennial herbs with many runners and bearing white flowers followed by edible (plural) (12)
  4. 9. Any of various edible seeds of plants of the family Leguminosae used for food (plural) (5)
  5. 10. Small white grains grown in wet fields (4)
  6. 12. Any of various plants of the genus Lactuca (7)
  7. 13. Support resembling the rib of an animal (plural) (4)
  8. 14. Long yellow fruit with a peel (6)
  9. 15. Annual native to South America having underground stolons bearing edible starchy tubers (plural) (8)

Down

  1. 1. Pasta in the form of long strings (9)
  2. 2. Sweet and hot varieties of fruits of plants of the genus Capsicum (plural) (7)
  3. 4. An African melon (10)
  4. 5. A baked loaf of ground meat (8)
  5. 7. Hairy upright herb native to southeastern Asia but widely cultivated for its large glossy edible (8)
  6. 8. Stalks eaten raw or cooked or used as seasoning (6)
  7. 11. A slice of meat cut from the fleshy part of an animal or large fish (5)