Food

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 5. Citrus fruit that shares its name with a color (6)
  2. 6. Scaly swimmer that breathes through gills (4)
  3. 7. Baked food made from flour, used for sandwiches (5)
  4. 8. A sandwich consisting of a fried cake of minced beef served on a bun, often with other ingredients (9)
  5. 10. Clear liquid we drink that falls as rain (5)
  6. 13. Sweet baked dessert for birthdays (4)
  7. 15. Sweetened beverage of diluted ___ juice (8)
  8. 16. Any of a number of tropical vines of the genus Dioscorea many having edible tuberous roots (3)

Down

  1. 1. A tropical American plant bearing a large fleshy edible fruit with a terminal tuft of stiff leaves (9)
  2. 2. Frozen water (3)
  3. 3. The liquid part that can be extracted from plant or animal tissue by squeezing or cooking (5)
  4. 4. A ribbonlike strip of pasta (6)
  5. 9. Small white grains grown in wet fields (4)
  6. 11. A beverage made by steeping ___ leaves in water (3)
  7. 12. Liquid food especially of meat or fish or vegetable stock often containing pieces of solid food (4)
  8. 14. Oval foods laid by hens (4)