🇬🇧 English Vocabulary Crossword Puzzle

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CEFR B1 World Cuisines

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➡ Across 15 Words

4. Adverb: Italian cuisine is famous, ___ for pasta
6. Preposition: All dishes are spicy ___ the dessert
8. A spicy green paste served with sushi
10. Liked the flavor of a dish
17. A Middle Eastern food made from fried chickpeas
18. A sweet spice used in desserts and curries
21. A Spanish rice dish with seafood and saffron
22. A style of cooking from a particular country or region
23. A small fruit used to make oil, common in Mediterranean cuisine
24. A crescent-shaped French pastry
25. To come out, as flavors when cooking
26. Cooked over a fire, as kebabs or burgers
27. To fix, as seasoning in a dish
29. An expensive yellow spice used in paella
30. A Middle Eastern dip made from chickpeas and tahini

⬇ Down 15 Words

1. Preposition: Add spices ___ the end of cooking
2. A spicy root used in many Asian dishes
3. To give up, as a recipe that fails
5. A dish of meat cooked on a skewer, common in Middle Eastern cuisine
7. A style of Indian cooking using a clay oven
9. Conjunction: Indian food uses spices ___ herbs
11. To make something seem bigger, as saying a dish is the best ever
12. A long thin strip of pasta or dough, common in Asian dishes
13. A long, thin French bread
14. Added salt, pepper, or spices to food
15. Cooked with steam, as dumplings or vegetables
16. To make bigger, as a portion size
19. Cooked in hot water, as pasta or rice
20. To mix a solid into a liquid until it disappears, as sugar in tea
28. A tropical fruit used in curries and desserts

📚 Study Guide: CEFR B1 (Intermediate) Vocabulary Focus

This CEFR B1 (Intermediate) English crossword targets descriptive vocabulary, workplace and academic terms, and abstract nouns connected to "World Cuisines". Pay attention to prefixes, suffixes, and intersecting letter patterns.

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