Across
- 3. Strategy meets vocabulary on a wooden board
- 4. Invisible comfort felt, not seen
- 7. Boots, goals, and a captains resolve
- 8. A silent hello with universal meaning
- 10. A layered dessert
- 11. Language logic in a black-and-white format
- 13. Orchestrator of taste, texture, and timing
- 14. Sweet endings that often steal the show
- 16. Independent companions with a royal attitude
- 17. Groundcover with a name like a spell
- 18. The behind the scenes solver
- 20. Fragmented beauty waiting to be pieced together
- 21. The joyful fusion of heat, ingredients, and heart
- 23. Unshaken by time or circumstance
- 24. Patient sculptor of the living landscape
- 25. Naked chef turned food campaigner
Down
- 1. The queen of cakes and calm critique
- 2. Where confusion meets satisfaction
- 5. It's still going the distance
- 6. From the land of cream tea, dry wit, and rainy skies
- 9. Armor for the culinary battlefield
- 12. Measured, deliberate, never approximate
- 13. Creamy comfort in yellow form
- 15. Ritual pause between hustle and dusk
- 16. Quiet strength shown in acts, not words
- 19. A word that warms without effort
- 22. Mental checklist before leaving home