Fruits and Vegetables

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Across
  1. 1. / A tall plant with large yellow seeds that grow together on a COB (=long hard part), which is cooked and eaten as a vegetable or fed to animals [= maize British English]
  2. 3. / A large round vegetable with thick green or purple leaves. Kids are usually told that babies come right from it.
  3. 4. / A plant like a small onion, used in cooking to give a strong taste. It is said to frighten off vampires, but it rather frightens off anyone!
  4. 7. / A plant with a round dark red root that you cook and eat as a vegetable.
  5. 8. / Children love this red, soft, sweet fruit.
  6. 11. / A fruit with a thick green or dark purple skin that is green inside and has a large seed in the middle. It’s the basis for guacamole.
  7. 12. / Tropical, yellow, sour fruit with vitamin C.
  8. 13. / A long pointed orange vegetable that grows under the ground.
  9. 14. / White, round, hot vegetable, you cry when cutting.
  10. 15. / A very large orange fruit that grows on the ground. Cinderella's carriage was made out of it.
Down
  1. 1. / A long thin round vegetable with a dark green skin and a light green inside, usually eaten raw.
  2. 2. / A small black or purple berry from a bush. It's also the name of a communication gadget.
  3. 5. / Green vegetable with big leaves.
  4. 6. / Red vegetable from which ketchup is made.
  5. 9. / A small sweet fruit like an orange with a skin that comes off easily.
  6. 10. / A type of round green vegetable, which has buds with leaves that you eat, which are like the petals of a flower.
  7. 15. / Sweet vegetable or spice growing in shrubs.
  8. 16. / Small, round, red fruit with a stone, growing in trees.