Food Words

Name: ______________________ Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

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4. A prehistoric unrecorded language that was the ancestor of all Indo-European languages (3)
5. Sweet food that grows on plants (5)
8. Big orange squash carved at Halloween (7)
10. Perennial plant widely cultivated as an annual in many varieties for its long conical orange edible (6)
11. Sweet baked dessert for birthdays (4)
12. Plant foods like carrots and broccoli (10)
14. Any of various edible seeds of plants of the family Leguminosae used for food (plural) (5)
15. Yellow vegetable that grows in ears (4)

1. The main meal of the day served in the evening or at midday (6)
2. Scaly swimmer that breathes through gills (4)
3. Sweet and hot varieties of fruits of plants of the genus Capsicum (6)
6. A piece of meat ___ or for ___ and of a size for slicing into more than one portion (5)
7. A melon vine of the genus ___ (8)
9. Baked food made from flour, used for sandwiches (5)
10. Stalks eaten raw or cooked or used as seasoning (6)
13. Mildly acid red or yellow pulpy fruit eaten as a vegetable (6)