Vegetables crossword
Vegetables grow in the garden and fill our plates, from a round pea to a long leek. This crossword gathers the vegetables of the kitchen and the allotment for children to solve. A healthy pick for a food topic.
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How to solve a crossword
Fill the white squares so every numbered clue reads across or down.
The method
- 1Read the clue and its number. Each number in the grid starts an answer going across or down. Find the clue with that number and direction.
- 2Count the squares. The run of white squares after the number tells you how many letters the answer has.
- 3Write the answers you are sure of first. Start with the clues you know. Each answer you fill hands letters to the clues that cross it.
- 4Use the crossing letters. A shared letter from an answer you have placed narrows a crossing clue, often to a single word.
- The one rule
- Every white square belongs to an across answer and a down answer, and the two must agree on their shared letter.
- What the answer page shows
- The completed grid is printed at the back.
- How the grades differ
- Easier puzzles use common words and plain clues; harder ones use trickier wording and longer answers.
- Good for
- Word lovers, from a gentle themed puzzle to a classic challenge.
Clues in this vegetables crossword
The 14 clues below fill the grid above. Each answer length is shown to help younger solvers; the full answer key prints on the second page.
- Small round green vegetable in a pod (3 letters)
- Vegetable that grows up a tall pole (4 letters)
- Orange root a rabbit loves (6 letters)
- Root vegetable you mash or roast (6 letters)
- Vegetable that makes you cry (5 letters)
- Red salad vegetable, really a fruit (6 letters)
- Crunchy vegetable in red or green (6 letters)
- Big round leafy green vegetable (7 letters)
- Crisp leaves for a salad (7 letters)
- Dark green leaf that made Popeye strong (7 letters)
- Big orange vegetable carved at Halloween (7 letters)
- Long green salad vegetable (8 letters)
- Small red peppery root (6 letters)
- Long white vegetable, the emblem of Wales (4 letters)
Vegetables by letter count
Stuck on a crossword clue? Here are vegetables grouped by how many letters they have, so you can match the answer to the squares.
| Letters | Vegetables |
|---|---|
| 3 letters | Pea, Yam |
| 4 letters | Bean, Leek, Kale, Corn, Okra |
| 5 letters | Onion, Swede, Cress |
| 6 letters | Carrot, Potato, Tomato, Pepper, Radish, Turnip, Marrow, Celery |
| 7 letters | Cabbage, Lettuce, Spinach, Pumpkin, Parsnip, Shallot |
| 8 letters | Cucumber, Broccoli, Beetroot, Chickpea |
| 9 letters | Courgette, Sweetcorn, Aubergine, Artichoke |
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Questions
- What is a 6-letter vegetable?
- Carrot, potato, tomato, pepper, radish, turnip, marrow and celery are six-letter vegetables.
- What is a 7-letter vegetable?
- Cabbage, lettuce, spinach, pumpkin, parsnip and shallot each have seven letters.
- What is a 9-letter vegetable?
- Courgette, sweetcorn, aubergine and artichoke are nine-letter vegetables.
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- Yes. Generate the vegetables puzzle above, with its 14 clues and a full answer key, and print it at no cost and with no sign-up. It is free for classroom, home and personal use.
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- Yes. The generator is pre-filled with a themed clue list, but you can edit any clue, add your own, or change the title and generate a fresh grid. It runs entirely in your browser.
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- Yes. The free tool makes one puzzle. Publisher Studio drafts a clue bank with AI and generates hundreds of graded puzzles at any KDP trim, as a print-ready 300 DPI interior and answer-key PDF, so you can publish a themed book.