Clues for the word "SEED"
We've had 509 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 1191 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Easy crossword on December 11, 2025.
Definition of seed
- pl. - of Seed
- n. - A ripened ovule, consisting of an embryo with one or more integuments, or coverings; as, an apple seed; a currant seed. By germination it produces a new plant.
- n. - Any small seedlike fruit, though it may consist of a pericarp, or even a calyx, as well as the seed proper; as, parsnip seed; thistle seed.
- n. - The generative fluid of the male; semen; sperm; -- not used in the plural.
- n. - That from which anything springs; first principle; original; source; as, the seeds of virtue or vice.
- n. - The principle of production.
- n. - Progeny; offspring; children; descendants; as, the seed of Abraham; the seed of David.
- n. - Race; generation; birth.
- v. t. - To sprinkle with seed; to plant seeds in; to sow; as, to seed a field.
- v. t. - To cover thinly with something scattered; to ornament with seedlike decorations.
Referring Clues
- Tournament V.I.P.
- Burpee's bit
- Sow
- Spring purchase
- Origin
- Germ
- Basis
- Very beginning
- Garden store purchase
- Kind of pearl
- Gardener's spring purchase
- Nut, basically
- Lentil, e.g.
- Start a garden
- Kind of money
- Plant of the future
- Tournament draw
- Plant-to-be
- Core component
- Progeny
- Wimbledon ranking
- Open position?
- Burpee unit
- Pip or pit
- Tournament favorite
- Plant's start
- Gardener's bagful
- Give a special berth
- Something to go to
- Start of something big
- Induce rain from
- Pit
- ___ money (start-up's need)
- ___ money
- Bracket position
- Starting point
- Some bird feed
- Future shoot
- "Sword Blades and Poppy ___" (Amy Lowell poem)
- Feeder filler
- ___ stock (planter's supply)
- Bye holder
- Symbol of regeneration
- Caraway, for one
- Tournament ranking
- Future flower, usually
- Start a flower bed
- Garden starter
- Burpee purchase
- Bit of finch fare
- Bit of bird food
- Sunflower start
- Place, as in a tourney schedule
- Start a lawn
- Ranked player
- Bit of a raspberry
- Sunflower product
- Watermelon beginning
- Provide capital for
- Bit of bird chow
- Lawn starter
- Sunflower edible
- Parakeet treat
- Go to ___ (lose vigor)
- Rank, as contestants
- Pip
- Match ranking
- Tournament position
- Apple pip, for example
- Rhubarb start
- Planter's need
- Bird feeder tidbit
- Tidbit for a canary
- Start of a sunflower
- Nutmeg or sesame
- Basis of development
- Plant starter
- High-ranking player
- Plant a lawn
- Future plant
- Course
- Bad thing to go to?
- Issue
- Word before money or pearl
- Bird feeder filler
- Ranking tournament player
- Bird feeder food
- Future elm
- Tourney ranking
- Garden planting
- Finch food
- Future blade of grass
- Sown thing
- Beginning
- Watermelon discard
- Particle in a packet
- Tweety's eats
- Gardener's buy
- Kernel
- Landscaper's supply
- Gardener's purchase
- Bird-feeder tidbit
- Acorn, essentially
- Potential plant
- Future flower
- Bird food
- Burpee bagful
- Watermelon feature
- Fruit pit, for one
- Parakeet feed
- Parakeet meal
- Raspberry bit
- Farmer's purchase
- Peach pit, e.g.
- US Open slot
- Cherry pit, e.g.
- Parakeet food
- Flower starter
- Bird-feeder food
- Planter's purchase
- Caraway or sunflower
- Plant's beginning
- It needs room to grow
- Provide with startup capital
- Parrot's provender
- Apple pip, e.g.
- Budding prospect?
- A favorite at Wimbledon
- It's lower than dirt
- Propagative part of a plant
- It's for the birds
- It could lead to something big
- Pippin
- Supply with startup money
- It's planted
- Its place is lower than dirt
- Parrot morsel
- Parakeets' eats
- Bird nibble
- It's a real pip
- Garden party?
- Rank, in a way
- Crop starter
- Offspring
- Wimbledon status
- Nutmeg, e.g.
- Flower child?
- Create a lawn
- It's often lower than dirt
- Tuber or bulb
- Navel orange's lack
- Watermelon throwaway
- Pit or stone
- Supply with start-up money
- Tennis ranking
- It's sown and grown
- Orange tree's origin
- Start
- Bit of watermelon waste
- Arrange in a tournament
- Watermelon bit
- Parakeet's eats
- Watermelon eater's annoyance
- Start of something
- Basis of growth
- Nut, e.g.
- Stalk starter
- High-ranking competitor
- Tourney rank
- Parrot's meal
- Tennis rating
- Rank tennis players
- One to grow on
- Chipmunk's morsel
- Sparrow snack
- Sunflower, for one
- It may be for the birds
- Cardamom or chickpea
- Bird chow
- Plant product
- Potential flower
- Marigold's origin
- Start for a plant
- Birth of a notion
- Parrot's morsel
- Flower product
- Idea's origination
- Pod contents
- Nut, actually
- Burpee product
- Future 19-Across
- Burpee wares
- Parrot snack
- Canary snack
- Start of an idea
- Bird snack
- Burpee buy
- Eventual plant
- Wimbledon rating
- Burpee bit
- Tourney favorite
- Gardener's starter
- Apple core bit
- Idea's beginning
- What a parakeet might eat
- Item strewn by a sower
- Acorn to an oak
- Descendants
- Landscaper supply
- Tournament rating
- Word with poppy or top
- Favorable tournament position
- Bird feed bit
- Watermelon eater's discard
- Tournament rank
- Sesame ___
- Ranking for a tennis pro
- Start of something big?
- One of a core group
- Place, as in a tournament
- Bun topper
- Garden center supply
- Bit of a core
- Sunflower beginning
- Growing need?
- Assigned position
- Pumpkin's beginning
- Lousy thing to go to?
- Tidbit for a bird
- It strives underground
- 2004 film" ___ of Chucky"
- Nursery package contents
- Plant
- Parakeet's treat
- Caraway ___
- Rank
- Sown bit
- Discord on the far left and far right?
- Kind of capital
- Poppy or sesame
- Do a farming job
- Papaya discard
- Apple product
- Plant germ
- Farmer's need
- Thing to sow
- Number one at Wimbledon, e.g.
- Grain
- Pea or peanut
- Acorn, for one
- Granola bit
- Bit in an apple core
- Tournament front-runner
- Burger bun tidbit
- Ovum
- Nursery purchase
- Core element?
- Edible part of a sunflower
- Go to ___ (deteriorate)
- Bird feeder supply
- Branded
- Cotton gin discard
- Sesame tidbit
- Sesame ___ bun
- Lentil or coconut
- Plant generator
- See 54 Down
- Germ of an idea
- Tidbit for a parakeet
- Sunflower yield
- Part of an apple
- Provide startup funds
- Tidbit for a titmouse
- Embryo plant
- Rank, in tournaments
- Parakeet fare
- Ranked player at Wimbledon
- Babe in the woods?
- Fruit pip
- Fruit stone
- "Planted" player
- Handful for a plot
- Sesame bit
- Nursery bagful
- Peach pit or walnut
- Ranked tourney entrant
- Sesame-___ bun
- Farmer's moneymaker
- Bird feeder morsel
- Planting unit
- Bird's snack
- Apple-core bit
- Something to grow from
- One put in bed?
- Acorn, e.g.
- Morsel on an everything bagel
- Nursery supply
- Feeder fill
- Something a strawberry has on the outside
- Pomegranate bit
- Give start-up money to
- Embryo
- Plant starter in the garden
- Plant beginning
- Plant start
- Offspring of top player
- Regard daughter as offspring
- Plant ovule
- Planted Sublime song?
- Watermelon grower
- Nick Cave band member?
- What The Roots planted in "2.0"
- The Mountain Goats "___ Song"
- The Roots "The ___ (2.0)"
- Might get sown for love, by Tears for Fears
- Mudvayne song they planted?
- Tears for Fears might sow a "Love" one
- Sublime song that could be sown?
- High-ranked player in a knock-out tournament
- Roots "The ___ (2.0)"
- Pip - source - children
- Sublime song they planted that grew?
- Good player selected but disheartened?
- See 19
- Basis for new plant
- Tourney placement
- Propagative part of plant
- Item in a Burpee's packet
- Strewn item
- Canary chow
- Sparrow's snack
- Strong competitor
- Next year's grass court player
- Saw illiterate children
- Interview 500 children
- *Select descendants
- Potential poppy
- Ranked tournament player
- Spring purchase, perhaps
- Sower's need
- It may be the start of something big
- Federer or Nadal, in most tourneys
- Propagative plant part
- Garden-center purchase
- The Bad ___ (William March novel)
- Grapefruit eater's annoyance
- Tournament placing
- Rye-bread bit
- Orange discard
- Plant embryo
- See 24
- ___ his place would shortly go to top player
- Issue type of road restriction, 11
- See 26
- One preselected as leader of diocese put it first
- Offspring's letters returned
- Acorn, functionally
- Thing lower than dirt
- Morsel for a mourning dove
- Food for a canary
- Brown bit in an apple's core
- Do a lawn chore
- Bird food?
- Beginning to get it with date
- Provide startup funds for
- Sown item
- Flower's origin
- Parakeet snack
- Parakeet's meal
- Check the figure possibly broadcast
- Sunflower morsel
- Bird feed
- Bird's food
- Sesame ___ (burger bun tidbit)
- Canary food
- Tournament number
- Wimbledon rank
- Stuff that's sown
- Landscaper's bagful
- Snack for a finch
- Morsel for a macaw
- Hamster morsel
- No. 1 ___ (tournament favorite)
- Start of a flower
- Check the figure broadcast, possibly
- Tournament competitor
- Edible sunflower bit
- Open placement
- Quinoa, e.g.
- Edible sunflower morsel
- Tourney entrant
- Landscaper's purchase
- Bit of apple waste
- Caraway tidbit in bread
- Parrot owner's buy
- Nursery packet contents
- Bird feeder fodder
- Plant's genesis
- Farm supply bagful
- Number in brackets?
- Future watermelon
- Edible pomegranate bit
- Planter's buy
- See 33-Down
- Caraway morsel
- Trail mix bit
- Pip, kernel
- It's stuck in dirt
- Bit inside a pumpkin
- Player to watch a lot?
- Part of a gardener's supply
- Little bit of doubt, metaphorically
- Everything bagel bit
- Something to sow
- Flower-to-be
- Strong competitor, probably
- Food for a parakeet
- Future sunflower
- Open favorite
- Disseminate
- Discarded part of a watermelon
- Lawn repair material
- You can't plant a plant without it
- What grass is grown from
- Children observe deputy head
- Bird feeder bit
- Bit of leftover watermelon waste
- Watermelon part that's spit out
- Watermelon waste unit
- Kernel, e.g.
- Word before "money" or "crop"
- Watermelon part, often
- Everything bagel morsel
- Avocado pit, e.g.
- Piece inside a pumpkin
- Bit found in an apple's core
- Provide initial funding for
- "I begin with the ___ of an emotion, a place, and then move from there" (Joy Harjo)
- One of many inside a jackfruit
- Number shown in brackets?
- Baked pumpkin bit
- Edible piece of a pomegranate
- Tree-to-be
- Avocado pit, for one
- Acorn, for instance
- See 1-Down
- Bit of watermelon leftover
- Schedule competitively, as a tournament
- Piece inside a muskmelon
- Piece inside a kabocha
- Genesis
- Apple core?
- Good player selected but disheartened?
- An avocado pit is one
- Black piece inside a pitaya
- A good gardener uses at least one
- Pomegranate morsel
- Commonly planted thing
- Avocado pit, for example
- Poppy or sunflower bit
- Begonia beginning
- Source
- March Madness datum
- Bit of funding
- Piece inside a lemon
- Trail mix piece
- Edible sunflower piece
- Piece inside a pear
- Finch feeder filler
- Watermelon part
- Number in a tournament
- Item in a gardener's packet
- Piece inside a kiwi
- March Madness number
- Spit-out bit of a watermelon
- Number in brackets
- Watermelon piece
- Flax___ (smoothie add-in)
- Subject of the "Lorax" song "Let It Grow"
- An avocado pit is a big one
- Pumpkin bit that might be baked
- Common planting
- ___ money: startup funds
- Unit of doubt, so to speak
- Tournament placement
- What a plant grows from
- See 57-Across
- What becomes a tree
- Pit, e.g.
- Source of an apple tree
- Bit inside a lychee
- Word after "sesame" or "sunflower"
- Unwelcome surprise in a glass of fresh-squeezed juice
- The world's largest one, produced by the coco de mer, weighs up to 55 pounds
- ___ money (funding for a startup)
- Navel's lack
- Initial idea
- Part of a dandelion's fuzzy structure
- Chickpea, e.g.
- Sports team's assignment
- Bit inside a loquat
- Black bit inside a papaya
- Pulse, e.g.
- Bit of quinoa
- Beginning of an idea
- Future growth opportunity?
- Bit of chia or hemp
- Rose starter
- Very start, as of an idea
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Easy - December 11, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - December 10, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - December 04, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - November 21, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - November 08, 2025
- LA Times - November 08, 2025
- New York Times - November 07, 2025
- Mirror Daily - October 29, 2025
- Your Life Choices - October 19, 2025
- LA Times - October 07, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - October 02, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - October 02, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 08, 2025
- Mirror Daily - September 07, 2025
- Mirror Daily - September 06, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - August 26, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - August 20, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - August 18, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - August 15, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - August 14, 2025
- Daily American - August 07, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - August 06, 2025
- Daily American - July 16, 2025
- Mirror Daily - July 13, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - July 08, 2025
- New York Times - July 06, 2025
- Your Life Choices - June 12, 2025
- LA Times - June 02, 2025
- Mirror Daily - June 01, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - May 29, 2025
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