| First sign of a flower |
USA Today |
15 Oct 2025 |
| Young flower or leaf |
Puzzler Backwords |
24 Sep 2025 |
| Blossom-to-be |
Newsday |
21 Sep 2025 |
| Baby flower |
|
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| Nip it in the ___ (stop at an early stage) |
|
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| Baby flower |
|
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| Future flower |
Thomas Joseph |
22 Aug 2025 |
| New plant sprout |
|
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| Blossom-to-be |
|
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| American friend |
The Sun Two Speed |
12 Jul 2025 |
| One not yet out? European leaves Cornish town |
The Sun Two Speed |
12 Jul 2025 |
| Beer brand nickname |
|
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| Unopened flower |
The Telegraph Quick |
27 Jun 2025 |
| "___ the Spud" by Stompin' Tom Connors |
|
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| Pal |
USA Today |
04 Jun 2025 |
| American associate found in this section of the plant |
|
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| Newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded (3) |
|
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| Nip in the - |
|
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| Flanagan or Abbott say is American friend (3) |
|
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| Baby flower |
|
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| Come out shooting (3) |
|
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| Unopened flower |
Mirror Classic |
07 May 2025 |
| Unopened bloom |
Mirror Tea Time |
06 May 2025 |
| _ Powell (3) |
|
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| Son on "Father Knows Best" |
|
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| Young flower or leaf (3) |
Puzzler Backwords |
27 Apr 2025 |
| Sign of spring |
LA Times Daily |
23 Apr 2025 |
| Begin blooming |
Universal |
06 Apr 2025 |
| Popular beer brand |
|
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| Actor Cort |
|
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| "King of Beers," for short |
|
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| Comedy partner of Lou Costello (3,6) |
|
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| Outgrowth on plant stem (3) |
|
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| Future flower |
USA Today |
14 Feb 2025 |
| Future flower |
Eugene Sheffer |
10 Feb 2025 |
| Pardner |
New York Times |
05 Feb 2025 |
| Future flower |
Eugene Sheffer |
01 Feb 2025 |
| Future flower |
|
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| Blossom-to-be |
|
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| It's a rudimentary plant growth, pal (3) |
|
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| Bundy son |
|
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| Shoot, pal (3) |
|
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| Unopened blossom |
Newsday |
31 Dec 2024 |
| Baby bloomer? |
Universal |
29 Dec 2024 |
| Begin to bloom |
Newsday |
26 Dec 2024 |
| New sprout on plant: flower - |
|
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| Unopened flower |
Mirror Classic |
27 Nov 2024 |
| Nascent flower |
The Times Concise |
20 Nov 2024 |
| Immature leaf |
Puzzler Backwords |
16 Nov 2024 |
| Get off budget and buy an artichoke for example (3) |
|
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| Blossom-to-be |
|
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| A starter bound not to get on (3) |
|
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| Future daisy |
|
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| A potential bloomer, chum (3) |
|
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| Nip it in the ___ (stop at an early stage) |
|
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| Potato eye |
Commuter |
07 Oct 2024 |
| Flower-to-be |
|
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| Baby bloom |
|
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| Sign of spring |
Universal |
08 Sep 2024 |
| __ vase |
LA Times Daily |
03 Sep 2024 |
| Flower-to-be |
Commuter |
02 Sep 2024 |
| ___ Abbott and Lou Costello, comedy duo (3) |
|
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| Future flower |
Eugene Sheffer |
17 Aug 2024 |
| "Nip it in the ___" |
|
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| Begin to flower |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
03 Aug 2024 |
| Friendly form of address between males |
|
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| Bustard had no star but a young flower (3) |
|
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| Pal |
LA Times Daily |
07 Jul 2024 |
| A rudimentary shoot is indubitably held up (3) |
|
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| Unopened leaf or flower (3) |
|
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| Popular beer brand, for short |
|
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| Small undeveloped rose (3) |
|
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| Flower start |
|
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| Rudimentary stem |
|
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| Rudimentary plant shoot |
Puzzler Backwords |
30 May 2024 |
| Future flower |
Thomas Joseph |
28 May 2024 |
| Future flower |
Eugene Sheffer |
25 May 2024 |
| Future leaf |
Wall Street Journal |
18 May 2024 |
| In which a friend from America is still to come out (3) |
|
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| Flower that is yet to bloom |
|
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| Close pal |
USA Today |
05 May 2024 |
| Visible rudiment of a limb not yet in flower (3) |
|
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| Rudimentary shoot |
|
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| Unopened flower |
Mirror Classic |
21 Apr 2024 |
| Future flower |
Eugene Sheffer |
17 Apr 2024 |
| American beer; shoot (3) |
|
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| Shoot companion (3) |
|
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| Future freesia |
|
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| Future flower |
Thomas Joseph |
27 Mar 2024 |
| Rudimentary shoot (3) |
|
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| New rose |
|
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| Immature leaf (3) |
Puzzler |
17 Mar 2024 |
| Start of a bloom |
|
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| Future flower |
The Telegraph Quick |
28 Feb 2024 |
| New shoot |
|
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| Partially opened flower |
|
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| Develop friend in America (3) |
|
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| Begin to flower |
New York Times |
21 Jan 2024 |
| Yet-to-bloom flower, in the garden |
|
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| Future flower |
Thomas Joseph |
06 Jan 2024 |
| Unopened flower |
Mirror Classic |
22 Dec 2023 |
| Developing flower |
|
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| Future flower |
|
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| Future flower? |
|
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| Pal |
USA Today |
28 Oct 2023 |
| Soon-to-be flower |
|
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| Future blossom |
Universal |
05 Oct 2023 |
| Flower-to-be |
|
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| Pal |
USA Today |
13 Aug 2023 |
| Unopened flower |
USA Today |
04 Jun 2023 |
| Future flower |
Wall Street Journal |
13 May 2023 |
| Friend, a nuisance ultimately abandoning capital |
The Times Cryptic |
17 Apr 2023 |
| Pre-bloom flower |
USA Today |
31 Mar 2023 |
| New flower |
The Telegraph Quick |
22 Feb 2023 |
| Future flower |
LA Times Daily |
21 Feb 2023 |
| Future flower |
Eugene Sheffer |
21 Feb 2023 |
| Future flower |
Eugene Sheffer |
16 Feb 2023 |
| Nip it in the ___ |
|
|
| Future flower |
Eugene Sheffer |
24 Jan 2023 |
| Pal |
Universal |
19 Jan 2023 |
| Pal |
Universal |
08 Jan 2023 |
| Future flower |
LA Times Daily |
03 Jan 2023 |
| Flower starter |
Wall Street Journal |
14 Dec 2022 |
| Flower, in the past |
|
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| Future flower |
|
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| Future flower |
Universal |
18 Oct 2022 |
| Start to grow capital, having got rid of a pest |
The Guardian Cryptic |
08 Sep 2022 |
| Future leaf |
Wall Street Journal |
30 Aug 2022 |
| Flower starter |
LA Times Daily |
22 Aug 2022 |
| Future daisy |
|
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| Begin to flower |
|
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| Pal |
LA Times Daily |
24 Jul 2022 |
| Future flower |
|
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| Pal |
USA Today |
27 Jun 2022 |
| Pal |
Universal |
17 Jun 2022 |
| One not yet out? European leaves Cornish town |
The Times Cryptic |
26 May 2022 |
| Flower that is yet to bloom |
|
|
| Future flower |
The Washington Post |
11 May 2022 |
| Future flower |
LA Times Daily |
11 May 2022 |
| Unopened blossom |
Newsday |
27 Apr 2022 |
| Beer nickname |
LA Times Daily |
03 Apr 2022 |
| Beer nickname |
The Washington Post |
03 Apr 2022 |
| See 17-Across |
Wall Street Journal |
17 Mar 2022 |
| Blossom-to-be |
|
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| Blossom-to-be |
Family Time |
06 Mar 2022 |
| Flower harbinger |
The Washington Post |
15 Feb 2022 |
| Flower harbinger |
LA Times Daily |
15 Feb 2022 |
| ___ Collyer, former game show host who hosted "To Tell the Truth" |
|
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| Future bloom |
USA Today |
04 Jan 2022 |
| Soon-to-be flower |
|
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| Unopened rose |
Thomas Joseph |
14 Dec 2021 |
| Unopened flower |
The Telegraph Quick |
27 Nov 2021 |
| Future flower |
Thomas Joseph |
24 Nov 2021 |
| Flower that hasn't bloomed |
USA Today |
25 Oct 2021 |
| A metropolitan raised by local Playmate |
Irish Times Crosaire |
09 Oct 2021 |
| Unopened flower |
USA Today |
22 Aug 2021 |
| Sprout |
New York Times |
12 Aug 2021 |
| Unopened blossom |
Newsday |
03 Aug 2021 |
| Springtime arrival |
Wall Street Journal |
19 Jun 2021 |
| Unopened flower |
Wall Street Journal |
14 Jun 2021 |
| Pal |
Newsday |
27 May 2021 |
| Homie |
New York Times |
21 May 2021 |
| Nip in the ___ |
|
|
| Anheuser-Busch InBev's stock ticker symbol |
New York Times |
02 May 2021 |
| Rose, before it blooms |
Universal |
25 Apr 2021 |
| American friend's name rejected |
|
|
| Blossom-to-be |
Family Time |
11 Apr 2021 |
| Start of a flower? |
|
|
| Chum |
Thomas Joseph |
27 Mar 2021 |
| Vase item |
Thomas Joseph |
25 Mar 2021 |
| Future flower |
Wall Street Journal |
22 Mar 2021 |
| Taste ___ |
The Washington Post Sunday |
21 Mar 2021 |
| Flower, at first |
Universal |
28 Jan 2021 |
| Unopened rose |
Thomas Joseph |
22 Jan 2021 |
| Baby flower? |
|
|
| Flower-to-be |
|
|
| AKA Willard Zebedee (Estey) |
Canadiana |
04 Jan 2021 |
| Future flower |
Eugene Sheffer |
24 Nov 2020 |
| Immature iris, say |
The Washington Post Sunday |
18 Oct 2020 |
| Frost victim |
Wall Street Journal |
26 Sep 2020 |
| Sign of spring |
The Washington Post |
02 Sep 2020 |
| Sign of spring |
LA Times Daily |
02 Sep 2020 |
| ___ Collyer, actor who voiced Superman in the 1940 radio serial "The Adventures of Superman" |
|
|
| Future flower |
New York Times |
05 Aug 2020 |
| Plant part |
New York Times |
19 Jul 2020 |
| Chum |
The Washington Post |
15 Jul 2020 |
| Future flower |
Thomas Joseph |
28 May 2020 |
| After return call American friend |
|
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| What blossoms into a flower |
|
|
| Nip it in the ___ (destroy something in an early stage) |
|
|
| Best pal |
Newsday |
08 Mar 2020 |
| Bloom's beginning |
Universal |
29 Feb 2020 |
| Friend in the US, one not yet out |
|
|
| Pal |
Wall Street Journal |
07 Dec 2019 |
| Future flower |
|
|
| Spring growth |
USA Today |
05 Nov 2019 |
| Chum |
Wall Street Journal |
21 Sep 2019 |
| Pal |
New York Times |
27 Aug 2019 |
| Unopened flower |
The Times Concise |
16 Aug 2019 |
| One of those from The Capital upset local Playmate |
Irish Times Crosaire |
27 Jul 2019 |
| Bar order |
The Washington Post |
16 Jun 2019 |
| Bar order |
LA Times Daily |
16 Jun 2019 |
| Flower-to-be |
USA Today |
15 Jun 2019 |
| Sign of spring |
Wall Street Journal |
11 Jun 2019 |
| Baby flower |
|
|
| Mac |
Premier Sunday |
05 May 2019 |
| Rose before it grows |
Universal |
02 Apr 2019 |
| Baby bloomer |
The New Yorker |
01 Apr 2019 |
| Immature flower |
|
|
| Begin blooming |
Newsday |
27 Mar 2019 |
| Spring sign |
The Washington Post |
09 Jan 2019 |
| Spring sign |
LA Times Daily |
09 Jan 2019 |
| Spring sign |
|
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| Sign of spring |
|
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| Future flower |
|
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| Chum |
|
|
| 'King of Beers' brand, for short |
USA Today |
01 Jan 2019 |
| Spring growth |
|
|
| Flower-to-be |
|
|
| Rose before it grows |
|
|
| Pal |
|
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| Bar order |
|
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| "King of Beers" brand, for short |
|
|
| Flower-to-be |
Universal |
23 Oct 2018 |
| Close pal |
The Washington Post Sunday |
21 Oct 2018 |
| Bloom's beginning |
USA Today |
08 Oct 2018 |
| Flower that hasn't bloomed yet |
|
|
| Yet-to-bloom flower |
|
|
| A flower before blooming? |
|
|
| Flower starter |
LA Times Daily |
12 Aug 2018 |
| Flower starter |
The Washington Post |
12 Aug 2018 |
| Flower-to-be? |
|
|
| Bloom-to-be |
Premier Sunday |
08 Jul 2018 |
| Friend found in 17-Across |
Wall Street Journal |
15 May 2018 |
| Generic guy's name |
Universal |
12 Mar 2018 |
| Shoot mate in Chicago |
|
|
| Bloom-to-be |
Family Time |
28 Jan 2018 |
| Sign of spring |
Universal |
23 Jan 2018 |
| Baby bloomer |
Family Time |
22 Jan 2018 |
| Sign of spring |
|
|
| Flower starter |
|
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| Flower-to-be |
|
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| Bloom's beginning |
|
|
| Friend found in 17-Across |
|
|
| Shoot in Budapest without tapes |
Irish Times Crosaire |
23 Dec 2017 |
| Popular brew, for short |
USA Today |
07 Dec 2017 |
| Bloom-to-be |
USA Today |
02 Nov 2017 |
| Unopened bloom |
Jonesin |
31 Oct 2017 |
| Flower-to-be |
|
|
| Blossom-to-be |
Universal |
14 Oct 2017 |
| Turning, confer name on rudimentary shoot |
|
|
| Unopened blossom |
Newsday |
30 Aug 2017 |
| Crony |
The Washington Post |
09 Aug 2017 |
| Crony |
LA Times Daily |
09 Aug 2017 |
| Future leaf |
Premier Sunday |
09 Jul 2017 |
| Undeveloped flower |
|
|
| Chum |
LA Times Daily |
27 Apr 2017 |
| Shoot an American friend |
|
|
| Blossom-to-be |
New York Times |
13 Feb 2017 |
| Blossom-to-be |
|
|
| Blossom-to-be |
|
|
| Chum |
|
|
| Popular brew, for short |
|
|
| Bloom-to-be |
|
|
| Crony |
|
|
| Bloom of the future |
Family Time |
26 Dec 2016 |
| Flower source |
LA Times Daily |
15 Nov 2016 |
| Unopened flower |
Irish Times Simplex |
27 Sep 2016 |
| Spring growth |
The Washington Post |
20 Aug 2016 |
| Blossom-to-be boy extremely unsound |
|
|
| Amigo |
Premier Sunday |
10 Jul 2016 |
| Something about to develop |
Newsday |
09 Jul 2016 |
| Plant part |
Canadiana |
30 May 2016 |
| Soon-to-be flower |
Family Time |
24 Apr 2016 |
| Pal |
The Washington Post |
20 Apr 2016 |
| Sign of spring |
|
|
| Caper, e.g |
Wall Street Journal |
14 Aug 2015 |
| Future leaf |
Wall Street Journal |
24 Jul 2015 |
| Shoot, sprout |
The Telegraph Quick |
20 Jul 2015 |
| Spring sight |
USA Today |
17 Jun 2015 |
| Baby blossom |
Eugene Sheffer |
19 May 2015 |
| Rose, at first |
Eugene Sheffer |
12 Mar 2015 |
| Blossom |
Universal |
10 Feb 2015 |
| Unopened bloom |
USA Today |
26 Jan 2015 |
| Future bloom |
LA Times Daily |
07 Jan 2015 |
| Future leaf |
|
|
| Popular 29-Across order |
|
|
| Future bloom |
|
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| Blossom |
|
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| Spring sight |
|
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| Unopened bloom |
|
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| Flower part |
|
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| Mac |
|
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| Blossom-to-be |
|
|
| Caper, e.g. |
|
|
| Pal |
|
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| Unopened blossom |
|
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| Close one, these days |
|
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| Unopened flower |
|
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| Three 6 Mafia "Where's Da ___" |
|
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| Flower child? |
|
|
| Friend in the highest place in the answer at 11-Down |
|
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| Compadre |
|
|
| Plant protrusion |
|
|
| Half of the "Who's on First?" duo |
|
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| Crony |
|
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| Future flower |
|
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| Begin to develop |
|
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| Flower-to-be |
|
|
| Begin to develop |
|
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| Pal |
|
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| 4:20 stuff |
|
|
| Flower-to-be |
|
|
| Comic Abbott |
|
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| Chum |
|
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| Pal |
|
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| Begin blooming |
|
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| Close pal |
|
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| Pal |
|
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| Harbinger of spring |
|
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| Spring growth |
|
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| Baby bloomer? |
|
|
| Blossom-to-be |
|
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| Flower starter |
|
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| Spring growth |
|
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| Baby bloomer |
|
|
| Harbinger of spring |
|
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| Future flower |
|
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| Amigo |
|
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| Bloomer |
|
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| Spring sign |
|
|
| Cheap beer at a show |
|
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| Future flower |
|
|
| Sign of spring in four places in this puzzle |
|
|
| Spring sight |
|
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| Unopened flower |
|
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| Shoot-to-be |
|
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| Future flower |
|
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| Unopened flower |
|
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| Potato eye |
|
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| Good friend |
|
|
| Not quite a bloomer |
|
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| Beginning blossom |
|
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| Unopened bloom |
|
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| Chum |
|
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| First name of a straight man |
|
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| Spring sight |
|
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| First name of a straight man |
|
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| Unexpanded flower |
|
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| "Father Knows Best" son |
|
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| Mac |
|
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| "Father Knows Best" son |
|
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| Baby blossom |
|
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| Mac |
|
|
| "King of beers" brand, for short |
|
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| Brew brand |
|
|
| Flower child? |
|
|
| Future flower |
|
|
| Bloom-to-be |
|
|
| Flower child? |
|
|
| Ex-Met Harrelson |
|
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| Bloom-to-be |
|
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| Smoked part |
|
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| Future flower |
|
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| The world's best-selling beer, for short |
|
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| What frost might nip |
|
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| Baby bloomer |
|
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| Lou's partner |
|
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| Baseball commissioner Selig |
|
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| Begin blooming |
|
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| Lou's partner |
|
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| Future bloom |
|
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| Begin to develop |
|
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| Unopened bloom |
|
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| Lou's partner |
|
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| "Father Knows Best" son |
|
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| Pal |
|
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| Shoot |
|
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| Start of a flower |
|
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| Common bar order, briefly |
|
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| Sir, less formally |
|
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| Future blossom |
|
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| Chum |
|
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| Potato eye |
|
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| Popular brew, for short |
|
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| Reproduce asexually |
|
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| "Father Knows Best" son |
|
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| Immature one |
|
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| Undeveloped flower |
|
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| Not quite a bloomer |
|
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| Flower starter |
|
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| Unopened flower |
|
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| Bloom-to-be |
|
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| Flower at first |
|
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| Baby bloomer |
|
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| Baby bloomer |
|
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| Baby bloomer |
|
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| Flower, once |
|
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| Spring sight |
|
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| Sprout |
|
|
| Lou's partner in comedy |
|
|
| Sign of spring, hidden four times in this puzzle |
|
|
| Mac |
|
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| Al Bundy's boy |
|
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| Germinate |
|
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| Clayton Collyer |
|
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| Frost victim |
|
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| Light brand |
|
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| Flower-to-be |
|
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| Nip site |
|
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| Straight man for Lou |
|
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| Early development |
|
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| Nascent flower |
|
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| Baby bloomer |
|
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| "Married... With Children" character |
|
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| Bloom's beginning |
|
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| Son on "Married... With Children" |
|
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| Future fuchsia |
|
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| Flower starter |
|
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| Sound from a commercial frog |
|
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| Baby blossom |
|
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| Fella |
|
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| Taste ____ |
|
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| Miller rival |
|
|
| Future blossom |
|
|
| Lou's sidekick |
|
|
| Future flower |
|
|
| Baby bloomer? |
|
|
| Unnamed fellow |
|
|
| Any fellow |
|
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| Beginning blossom |
|
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| Germ |
|
|
| Kind of mite or moth |
|
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| Sprout |
|
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| Potential flower |
|
|
| Palmer or Wilkinson |
|
|
| Sign of spring |
|
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| Would-be flower |
|
|
| Floret |
|
|
| Begin to flower |
|
|
| Gemma |
|
|
| Rose-to-be |
|
|
| Flower-to-be |
|
|
| Item for a small vase |
|
|
| Deb |
|
|
| Relative of Mac |
|
|
| Item for a vase |
|
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| Lou Costello's partner |
|
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| Debutante. |
|
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| Brother: colloq. |
|
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| Male generic nickname. |
|
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| Young girl entering social life. |
|
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| Slangy term of address. |
|
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| Be promising. |
|
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| Term of address to a boy. |
|
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| Begin to grow. |
|
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| Rose to be. |
|
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| Future flower. |
|
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| Sprout. |
|
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| Sign of spring. |
|
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| Form of address. |
|
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| Nipped in the ___. |
|
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| Brother: Colloq. |
|
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| Gemma. |
|
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| Shoot. |
|
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| Sign of spring |
|
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| Pal |
|
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| Man-cave guest |
|
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| Man cave invitee |
|
|
| Bit of weed |
|
|
| Immature thing. |
|
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| Develop. |
|
|
| Social deb |
|
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| Nipped in the ___ |
|
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