Across
- 5. Crisp, green, and always blamed for being boring.
- 6. Underground and orange — sometimes seen in cake, always linked to eyes.
- 8. Shares a name with a sport and a cooking method.
- 11. Its defense mechanism is tear-worthy. Literally.
- 12. Leafy and layered, often shredded beyond recognition.
- 14. Crunchy root that delivers a bite stronger than its size suggests.
- 16. Long, green, and probably floating in your spa water.
- 17. Carved in October, cooked in December.
Down
- 1. Root vegetable that bleeds red but isn’t injured.
- 2. Comes in cloves, repels more than just vampires.
- 3. Found in pods, often frozen, rarely alone.
- 4. Arguably a fruit, treated like a vegetable, never left out of a salad.
- 7. Shares a structure with broccoli, but lacks the green confidence.
- 8. Iron-rich, leafy, and once used as a cartoon superpower.
- 9. Small, sharp, and known to test pain thresholds.
- 10. Sticky inside, slim on the outside, controversial in curries.
- 13. Looks like a tree, eaten under duress in childhood.
- 15. Pale root, often forgotten, but mentioned in fables and farms.