Crossword-Solution: SEAKALE 7 letters, 15 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

The common Greek tortoise, hawked on barrows about the streets of London and bought by a confiding British public under the mistaken impression that its chief fare consists of slugs and cockroaches (it is really far more likely to feed upon its purchaser's choicest seakale and asparagus), buries itself in the ground at the first approach of winter, and snoozes away five months of the year in a most comfortable and dignified torpidity.

Indeed, the growing point or bud of most palms is a very pleasant succulent vegetable, and one kind--the West Indian mountain cabbage--deserves a better and more justly descriptive name, for it is really much more like seakale or asparagus.

Cabbages thriv'd there, wi' a mort o' green-stuff-- Kidney beans, broad beans, onions, tomatoes, Artichokes, seakale, vegetable marrows, Early potatoes.

Now please note how Mr Goring strikes the right note at the very outset: "Nip and Flip Took a holiday trip On a beautiful fourpenny-ha'penny ship With a dear little handkerchief sail; And they sang, 'Yo ho! We shall certainly go To the end of the world and back, you know, And capture the great Seakale.'" [15] _Nip and Flip._ By Jack Goring.

GWENNIE, my pet, run down and tell SEAKALE that if he hears me ring twice after everybody has come, he's to lay two extra places before he announces dinner.