Clues for the word "BUD"
We've had 131 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 295 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on January 08, 2026.
Definition of bud
- n. - A small protuberance on the stem or branches of a plant, containing the rudiments of future leaves, flowers, or stems; an undeveloped branch or flower.
- n. - A small protuberance on certain low forms of animals and vegetables which develops into a new organism, either free or attached. See Hydra.
- v. i. - To put forth or produce buds, as a plant; to grow, as a bud does, into a flower or shoot.
- v. i. - To begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner of a bud, as a horn.
- v. i. - To be like a bud in respect to youth and freshness, or growth and promise; as, a budding virgin.
- v. t. - To graft, as a plant with another or into another, by inserting a bud from the one into an opening in the bark of the other, in order to raise, upon the budded stock, fruit different from that which it would naturally bear.
Referring Clues
- Fella
- Baby blossom
- Flower starter
- Early development
- Frost victim
- Germinate
- Immature one
- Popular brew, for short
- Common bar order, briefly
- MAC
- Chum
- Al Bundy's boy
- Pal
- Baby bloomer
- Begin blooming
- Baseball commissioner Selig
- Unexpanded flower
- Not quite a bloomer
- Sir, less formally
- The world's best-selling beer, for short
- Begin to develop
- "King of beers" brand, for short
- Future flower
- "Father Knows Best" son
- Flower child?
- Lou's partner
- Future bloom
- Bloom-to-be
- Beginning blossom
- Blossom-to-be
- Unopened bloom
- Potato eye
- Unopened flower
- First name of a straight man
- Spring sight
- Amigo
- Future fuchsia
- Spring sign
- Sign of spring in four places in this puzzle
- Crony
- Vase item
- Rose-to-be
- Future rose
- Wilkinson of football lore
- Rose, at first
- Unopened rose
- Al Bundy's son
- Type of vase
- Eventual rose
- Abbott or Collyer
- Closed rose
- Rose, when young?
- Bro
- Baby bloomer?
- Close pal
- Sprout
- Harbinger of spring
- Future blossom
- Spring growth
- Flower-to-be
- Leaf out
- Comic Abbott
- Compadre
- Friend in the highest place in the answer at 11-Down
- Sign of spring
- Putative pansy
- Comedian Abbott
- Blossom
- Future leaf
- Caper, e.g.
- Rudimentary flower
- Plant part
- Something about to develop
- Flower source
- Baby flower
- Flower start
- Unopened blossom
- Bundy son
- Soon-to-be flower
- Flower part
- Part of a flower
- Not-yet blooming flower
- Al and Peggy Bundy's son
- Bloom of the future
- Unopened flower (3)
- Cheap beer at a show
- Three 6 Mafia "Where's Da ___"
- Shoot
- Drink with friend
- Be thrifty and move on time
- Come out in the garden, friend!
- A potential bloomer?
- Come out in the garden
- Partially opened flower
- Sign of spring, hidden four times in this puzzle
- Bloomer
- Generic guy's name
- William Abbott, familiarly
- Bloom
- Nip in the ___ (promptly put a stop to)
- Friend found in 17-Across
- Bloom's beginning
- Baby bloom
- Rose before it grows
- Future freesia
- Bar order
- Come out shooting
- A potential bloomer, chum
- A starter bound not to get on
- Best pal
- Shoot, mate
- An incipient bloomer
- Outgrowth
- Come out in the garden, mate
- Flower, at first
- Young flower
- Rose, before it blooms
- Anheuser-Busch InBev's stock ticker symbol
- Homie
- Flower that hasn't bloomed
- Flower harbinger
- Lou's comedic companion
- A potential bloomer?
- Beer nickname
- Pre-bloom flower
- Bundy boy
- Beautiful indication of spring
- Begin to flower
- ___ vase
- Pardner
- Actor Cort
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - January 08, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - December 29, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - December 27, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - October 30, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - October 13, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - September 23, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - July 02, 2025
- LA Times - April 23, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - April 16, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - March 16, 2025
- USA Today - February 14, 2025
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - February 10, 2025
- New York Times - February 05, 2025
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - February 01, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - January 31, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - December 24, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - December 14, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - November 06, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - October 15, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - October 15, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - September 21, 2024
- LA Times - September 03, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - August 21, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - August 17, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - July 17, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - July 15, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - July 08, 2024
- LA Times - July 07, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - June 06, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - May 30, 2024
- And in 265 more crossword puzzles...