Texas

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 2. Tree of southern United States and Mexico cultivated for its nuts (5)
  2. 6. The second largest state (5)
  3. 7. Long-tailed grey-and-white songbird of the southern United States able to mimic songs of other birds (11)
  4. 8. Very hot and finely tapering pepper of special pungency (5)

Down

  1. 1. The state of being ___ (10)
  2. 3. A hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback (6)
  3. 4. State capital of Texas on the Colorado River (6)
  4. 5. Widely cultivated American plant cultivated in tropical and warm regions (plural) (7)