Clues for the word "SPROUT"
We've had 59 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 67 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on February 19, 2026.
Definition of sprout
- v. t. - To shoot, as the seed of a plant; to germinate; to push out new shoots; hence, to grow like shoots of plants.
- v. t. - To shoot into ramifications.
- v. t. - To cause to sprout; as, the rain will sprout the seed.
- v. t. - To deprive of sprouts; as, to sprout potatoes.
- v. i. - The shoot of a plant; a shoot from the seed, from the stump, or from the root or tuber, of a plant or tree; more rarely, a shoot from the stem of a plant, or the end of a branch.
- v. i. - Young coleworts; Brussels sprouts.
Referring Clues
- Little one
- Bamboo beginning
- Word following Brussels or bean
- Salad bar tidbit
- Germinate
- Grow like a weed
- Shoot
- Brussels ___ (vegetable)
- Begin to blossom
- The Green Giant's companion
- The Green Giant's sidekick
- Spring from a seed
- Brussels ___ (vegetable)
- Start to grow
- Grow
- Fledgling plant
- Wee plant
- Green Giant's protg
- Jolly Green Giant's little pal
- Jolly Green Giant's protg
- Shoot up
- Young shoot
- Professor of herbology at Hogwarts
- Young bean
- Green Giant's "Little Green" buddy
- Little 'un
- Start to blossom
- Begin to grow
- Brussels ___
- Shoot something to eat
- Growth of Brussels?
- A growing involvement with Proust
- Develop new growth
- Come out to get something from the garden
- Talk about rain! How the plants will shoot!
- Produce shoots
- Push out new shoots
- Grow up with short story collection
- Start growing
- Produce new growth
- Suddenly grow
- Begin to grow out of stupor
- Shoot king in jet
- Odds on big defeat start to grow
- Spring vegetable
- Grow something to eat
- Grow suddenly
- Proust disconcerted by vegetable
- Grow quiet during second defeat
- New growth
- Shoot right rabbit on fencing
- Putative plant
- Produce buds
- Put out shoots
- Shoot out of Brussels?
- Come out of a stupor?
- Growth of Brussels?
- Talk about rain and new growth
- An offshoot of Brussels?
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - February 19, 2026
- Daily American - September 29, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - June 09, 2025
- Daily American - May 11, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - December 02, 2024
- USA Today - October 02, 2024
- Daily American - September 29, 2023
- Daily American - May 11, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - September 09, 2022
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 02, 2022
- Evening Standard Cryptic - August 02, 2022
- USA Today - June 24, 2022
- Penny Dell Daily - November 28, 2017
- Mirror Classic - October 24, 2017
- Netword - August 07, 2017
- Guardian Cryptic - January 30, 2017
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 09, 2016
- Evening Standard Easy - September 23, 2016
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 16, 2016
- New York Times - August 12, 2016
- LA Times - June 28, 2016
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - April 12, 2016
- Evening Standard Cryptic - March 01, 2016
- Guardian Everyman - February 07, 2016
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - January 15, 2016
- Evening Standard Cryptic - August 25, 2015
- LA Times Sunday - January 18, 2015
- USA Today - October 14, 2014
- Guardian Cryptic - February 17, 2014
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - December 28, 2013
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