ASPARAGUS

Spears on the table

• Color introduced in 1993

• Edible stem

• Grasp a rag usefully wrapping vegetable (9)

• Green veggie

• Peru was its leading exporter in 2009

• Shoots for dinner

• Shoots in the garden

• Speared vegetable

• Vegetable of the lily family

• Vegetable that makes urine smell funny

• Vegetable with spears and tips

• Young vegetable shoot

• Plant whose succulent young shoots are cooked and eaten as a vegetable