Healthy Foods

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 1. Oval foods laid by hens (4)
  2. 7. Cereal made of especially rolled oats with dried fruits and nuts and honey or brown sugar (7)
  3. 8. To cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of (plural) (6)
  4. 9. Pantropical vine widely cultivated in several varieties for its large ___ tuberous root (plural) (13)
  5. 11. Woody brambles bearing usually red but sometimes black or yellow fruits that separate from (plural) (11)
  6. 13. Any very large marine food and game fish of the genus Thunnus (4)
  7. 15. Southwestern Asian plant widely cultivated for its succulent edible dark green leaves (7)

Down

  1. 2. The color of grass (plural) (6)
  2. 3. Small bushy deciduous tree native to Asia and North Africa having pretty pink blossoms and highly (plural) (7)
  3. 4. Any of various low perennial herbs with many runners and bearing white flowers followed by edible (plural) (12)
  4. 5. Orange vegetables that rabbits love (7)
  5. 6. Long yellow fruit with a peel (6)
  6. 7. Citrus tree bearing large round edible fruit having a thick yellow rind and juicy somewhat acid pulp (10)
  7. 10. Citrus fruit that shares its name with a color (plural) (7)
  8. 12. Any of numerous annual trailing plants of the genus Cucurbita grown for their fleshy edible fruits (6)
  9. 14. Any of various deciduous trees of the genus Tilia with heart-shaped leaves and drooping cymose (plural) (5)