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Cooking Crossword for Adults

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Cooking Crossword for Adults

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Across

  • 3 Brown, then cook slowly in liquid (6)
  • 6 Long-handled spoon for soup (5)
  • 7 Seasoned liquid for soaking meat (8)
  • 8 Baked one-dish meal (9)
  • 12 Cook just below a boil (6)
  • 13 Cook quickly in a little hot fat (5)
  • 14 Flour and fat cooked together to thicken sauce (4)

Down

  • 1 Red spice made from dried peppers (7)
  • 2 Ground meat baked in a pan, often with ketchup glaze (8)
  • 3 Boil briefly, then plunge into ice water (6)
  • 4 Bowl with holes for draining pasta (8)
  • 5 Cut into thin matchsticks (8)
  • 8 Thick, creamy soup, often with clams (7)
  • 9 Frying pan, often cast iron (7)
  • 10 Herb common in Italian and Greek cooking (7)
  • 11 Wire tool for beating eggs (5)
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For
Adults and teens
Time
15–25 min
Grid
13 × 16
Clues
16 (7 across, 9 down)
Paper
US Letter, 2 pages
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About this crossword

A home-cooking crossword for adults: techniques, tools and kitchen classics from a well-loved recipe box.

The puzzle has 16 clues on a 13×16 grid. The PDF prints the puzzle and clues on page one and the filled-in answer key on page two.

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