Crossword November 2004

Answers to crossword in Wordwheel November 2004

Food and Drink

Across

3 Italian pasta dish (9)
8 To put baby on solid food (4)
9 Feet of animals used in food (8)
10 Group of states under one Sovereign (6)
12 Precious stone (3)
15 Chopper used to cut meat (7)
16 One layer of a wedding cake (4)
18 One way of cooking a steak (4)
19 They’re made into special butter (7)
20 Cubes of it often added to drinks (3)
24 Household jobs (6)
25 Candied leaf-stalk for cakes (8)
26 Unit of land measurement (4)
27 It’s used to dilute whiskey and brandy (4-5)

Down:

1 A variety of maize (9)
2 Fruit that grows on a cane (9)
4 A paste of blended meats (4)
5 Fowl eaten with sage stuffing (5)
6 Consumes food (4)
7 Open type of pantry dish (4)
11 To wander (4)
12 Basic material of wine (5)
13 It’s in all kinds of confectionary! (9)
14 It contains meat, potatoes and flour (5,4)
17 Kind of bun named after a city (4)
21 Type of tea (5)
22 ------- Domini, in the year of the Lord (4)
23 Second letter of the Greek alphabet (4)
24 It’s usually eaten at tea-time (4)