The Vegetable Patch

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Across

• Purple, glossy pear-shaped vegetable key to moussaka and ratatouille (8)
• Orange taproot favored by Bugs Bunny (6)
• Layered bulb that brings tears to the chef's eyes (5)
• Versatile tuber that can be mashed, baked, or fried (6)
• Immature green soybeans served steamed in their pods with sea salt (7)
• This starchy tuber is often confused with a sweet potato (3)
• White brassica head that has become a popular low-carb rice substitute (11)
• Red, juicy fruit botanically, but culinarily treated as a salad staple (6)
• Green sphere found snug in a pod (3)
• Purple-topped root vegetable used for jack-o-lanterns before pumpkins took over (6)
• Starchy tropical root used to make tapioca pearls (7)
• Grey-green herb traditionally stuffed inside Thanksgiving poultry (4)
• Chinese cabbage with white spoon-shaped stalks and dark green leaves (7)

Down

• Spicy, knobby rhizome essential for sushi and stir-fries (6)
• Leafy green with colorful, celery-like stalks often called Swiss (5)
• Mucilaginous pod essential for thickening gumbo (4)
• Large orange gourd carved for autumn doorsteps (7)
• Spear-like spring vegetable known for imparting a distinct odor to urine (9)
• Peppery aquatic green prized for British tea sandwiches (10)
• Pale, carrot-like root that sweetens after a winter frost (7)
• Deep red root that turns borscht its signature color (4)
• Husked green fruit essential for making salsa verde (9)
• Starchy tropical root crucial for making Hawaiian poi (4)

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