Foods

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 3. Vegetables preserved in brine or vinegar (6)
  2. 6. A slice of meat cut from the fleshy part of an animal or large fish (5)
  3. 7. Salty pink meat from a pig (3)
  4. 8. Farm bird that lays eggs (7)
  5. 10. A sandwich consisting of a fried cake of minced beef served on a bun, often with other ingredients (plural) (10)
  6. 13. A tart filled with rich unsweetened custard (6)
  7. 15. A tropical American plant bearing a large fleshy edible fruit with a terminal tuft of stiff leaves (9)
  8. 16. Baked dish of layers of ___ pasta with sauce and cheese and meat or vegetables (7)

Down

  1. 1. Southwestern Asian plant widely cultivated for its succulent edible dark green leaves (7)
  2. 2. An African melon (10)
  3. 4. A melon vine of the genus ___ (8)
  4. 5. Pasta in the form of slender tubes (8)
  5. 9. Small juicy fruit that grows in bunches (6)
  6. 11. Sweet and hot varieties of fruits of plants of the genus Capsicum (plural) (7)
  7. 12. Any of numerous annual trailing plants of the genus Cucurbita grown for their fleshy edible fruits (6)
  8. 14. Dairy food made from milk (6)