March Crossword Challenge
Across
- 3. Which character from Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland tells Alice to "take some more tea"? (2 words)
- 7. Which African country, with 90% of its tea grown on small farms of less than one acre, is a top tea producing nation?
- 12. Which herb is added to gunpowder tea to make the characteristic Moroccan tea?
- 13. Tea made its way from Asia to Europe via the Dutch East India Company in the early 17th century. First it was a novelty, then a luxury item, and it finally became widely available and affordable during which British monarch's reign?
- 14. The last name of the Scottish businessman who bought tea estates in Ceylon in 1890, in order to sell tea at a reasonable price at his growing chain of grocery stores?
- 15. Which British brand of tea, launched in 1903 by John Sumner, gets its name from the Chinese word for "doctor"?
- 17. What name is given to the popular custom of dipping a biscuit into tea?
- 18. What is the traditional South American caffeine-rich infusion that is drunk from a special container? (2words)
- 20. What is the British English colloquial term for an inexpensive, strong cup of tea, that's milky with sugar? (2 words)
- 22. Olive leaf tea is most popular in what country?
- 23. These people serves their tea by boiling butter and salt with their tea.
Down
- 1. What did Englishman Richard Blechynden popularize at the 1904 St Louis World Fair? (2 words)
- 2. Archibald Campbell began tea planting with Chinese seeds in which Indian district in 1841?
- 4. What is the humble, small, white and yellow, daisy-like flower that produces an aromatic herbal Chamoinfusion with numerous health benefits?
- 5. Bubble tea, which originated in Taiwan, has spherical balls of what ingredient inside?
- 6. Mma Ramotswe of the No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency - a famous tea drinker in literature - drank what kind of tea?
- 8. In the nursery rhyme Polly put the kettle on, who took it off again?
- 9. What is the Chinese Mandarin word for tea?
- 10. What affectionate nickname is sometimes applied to the person who pours out the tea?
- 11. Herbal tea is most appropriately called what?
- 15. The founder of which company opened Britain's first known tea room at No. 216 Strand, London, in 1706?
- 16. What grade of tea is used in tea bags?
- 19. In 1953, which company was the first to sell tea-bags in the UK? It also launched the round tea bag in 1989.
- 21. In a formal tea service thus holds the discarded hot water that was used to warm the teapot. (2 words)