Food crossword puzzle
Twelve clues about the food on an ordinary table: things you bake, peel, spread and eat with a spoon. Nothing exotic, everything crossable.
The grid and the clues
12 clues to solve: 6 across and 6 down.
Across
- 1. Baked food made from flour, water and yeast (5)
- 3. Hot dish you eat with a spoon (4)
- 4. Dairy food that can be fresh or aged; cartoon mice love it (6)
- 7. Italian dish: a round base with tomato and cheese (5)
- 9. Long yellow fruit you peel (6)
- 10. Yellow spread churned from cream (6)
Down
- 2. Round fruit, red or green; one a day keeps the doctor away (5)
- 4. Orange root vegetable rabbits love (6)
- 5. The hen lays it; you can boil, fry or scramble it (3)
- 6. Cold dish of mixed raw vegetables, often with lettuce (5)
- 8. Sweet golden food made by bees (5)
- 11. Small white grain, the base of paella and sushi (4)
What is on the menu?
Fruit, a vegetable, dairy, grains and the sweetest thing bees make. Every clue describes what the food is or what you do with it, never a brand or a recipe, so the puzzle stays solvable years from now. The answers run from three letters to six, a comfortable range where the crossings do a lot of the work for you.
A tip for crossword beginners
Read all the clues once before writing anything, and start with the one you are surest of. Each letter you place is a free hint for every answer that crosses it. If a crossing produces a letter that cannot start or continue your word, do not force it: one of the two answers is wrong, and it is usually the one you guessed.
Print it
One PDF for the puzzle, one for the answer key, both free and both a single sheet that prints clean in black and white. More themes are on the printable crossword puzzles page.
