Words That Start with B

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 2. Warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings (4)
  2. 3. Bottom part something stands on; a safe spot in baseball (4)
  3. 5. Biennial Eurasian plant usually having a swollen edible root (4)
  4. 6. Team sport where you shoot a ball through a hoop (10)
  5. 8. Any of various North American freshwater fish with lean flesh (4)
  6. 9. Any of various edible seeds of plants of the family Leguminosae used for food (4)
  7. 11. Superhero of Gotham City (6)
  8. 12. A short high tone produced as a signal or warning (4)

Down

  1. 1. A very young child who has not yet begun to walk or talk (4)
  2. 2. The supreme effort one can make (4)
  3. 4. An event that fails badly or is totally ineffectual (4)
  4. 5. State capital and largest city of Massachusetts (6)
  5. 7. Island country in the Atlantic to the east of Florida and Cuba (7)
  6. 8. Instrumentalists not including string players (4)
  7. 9. The law enforcement agency of the Justice Department that operates a nationwide system of prisons (3)
  8. 10. To prepare with dry heat in an oven (4)