| SEED | "I begin with the ___ of an emotion, a place, and then move from there" (Joy Harjo) |
| SEED | "Plant a ___ of doubt" (create suspicion) |
| SEED | "The Bad " 1985 Lynn Redgrave horror flick, |
| SEED | "The Bad ___," horror novel written by William March which was adapted into a movie |
| SEED | A team's ranking at the start of the March Madness tournament |
| SEED | Acorn, e.g. |
| SEED | Acorn, essentially |
| SEED | Acorn, for instance |
| SEED | Acorn, functionally |
| SEED | Acorn, to an oak |
| SEED | An avocado pit is a big one |
| SEED | An avocado pit is one |
| SEED | Apple core? |
| SEED | Apple eater's discard |
| SEED | Apple or watermelon discard |
| SEED | Apple pip |
| SEED | Apple pip, eg |
| SEED | Apple product |
| SEED | Apple-core bit |
| SEED | Assigned position |
| SEED | Avocado pit, e.g. |
| SEED | Avocado pit, for example |
| SEED | Avocado pit, for one |
| SEED | Baked pumpkin bit |
| SEED | Basis |
| SEED | Basis of development |
| SEED | Basis of growth |
| SEED | Beginning of an idea |
| SEED | Begonia beginning |
| SEED | Bird feed bit |
| SEED | Bird feeder bit |
| SEED | Bird feeder fill |
| SEED | Bird feeder filler |
| SEED | Bird feeder filling |
| SEED | Bird feeder food |
| SEED | Bird feeder morsel |
| SEED | Bird feeder supply |
| SEED | Bird feeder tidbit |
| SEED | Bird food |
| SEED | Bird food? |
| SEED | Bird snack |
| SEED | Bird's snack |
| SEED | Bird-feeder feed |
| SEED | Bird-feeder food |
| SEED | Birth of a notion |
| SEED | Bit found in an apple's core |
| SEED | Bit in a bird feeder |
| SEED | Bit in an apple core |
| SEED | Bit inside a pumpkin |
| SEED | Bit of bird food |
| SEED | Bit of funding |
| SEED | Bit of watermelon waste |
| SEED | Bit placed in a flowerpot |
| SEED | Bit that's on the outside of a strawberry, unusually |
| SEED | Black bit in a watermelon |
| SEED | Black bit inside a papaya |
| SEED | Black dot inside a watermelon, for e.g. |
| SEED | Black piece inside a pitaya |
| SEED | Black speck in a watermelon slice |
| SEED | Bracket position |
| SEED | Brown bit in an apple core |
| SEED | Brown bit in an apple's core |
| SEED | Building unit of plant production |
| SEED | Bun topper |
| SEED | Burger bun tidbit |
| SEED | Burpee buy |
| SEED | Burpee product |
| SEED | Burpee purchase |
| SEED | Burpee unit |
| SEED | Burpee wares |
| SEED | Burpee's bit |
| SEED | Burpeebit |
| SEED | Bye holder |
| SEED | Canary food |
| SEED | Canary snack |
| SEED | Caraway ___ |
| SEED | Caraway tidbit in bread |
| SEED | Caraway, for one |
| SEED | Cardamom or chickpea |
| SEED | Center of a peach pit |
| SEED | Characters use Edward’s pip |
| SEED | Coconut, basically |
| SEED | Core component |
| SEED | Crop's building unit |
| SEED | Crunchy bit in a fresh fig |
| SEED | Crux of a tree |
| SEED | Dark bit in a watermelon |
| SEED | Discarded part of a watermelon |
| SEED | Discord on the far left and far right? |
| SEED | Disseminate |
| SEED | Do a farm chore |
| SEED | Do a lawn chore |
| SEED | Do garden work |
| SEED | Edible bit of a sunflower |
| SEED | Edible part of a sunflower |
| SEED | Edible pomegranate bit |
| SEED | Edible pumpkin bit |
| SEED | Edible sunflower bit |
| SEED | Edible sunflower morsel |
| SEED | Edible sunflower piece |
| SEED | Embryo |
| SEED | Everything bagel bit |
| SEED | Everything bagel morsel |
| SEED | Everything bagel tidbit |
| SEED | Farm supply bagful |
| SEED | Farmer's purchase |
| SEED | Favorable tournament position |
| SEED | Feeder fill |
| SEED | Feeder filler |
| SEED | Finch feeder filler |
| SEED | Finch food |
| SEED | Flax ___, plant which is said to have medicinal properties when ingested |
| SEED | Flax___ (smoothie add-in) |
| SEED | Flower child? |
| SEED | Flowering plant's reproduction unit |
| SEED | Flower-to-be |
| SEED | Food for a canary |
| SEED | Food for a parakeet |
| SEED | Food for birds, maybe |
| SEED | Food in a bird feeder |
| SEED | Found inside a fruit |
| SEED | Fruit core bit |
| SEED | Fruit pip |
| SEED | Fruit's baby? |
| SEED | Future 19-Across |
| SEED | Future flower |
| SEED | Future fruit? |
| SEED | Future plant |
| SEED | Future plant, if all goes well |
| SEED | Future sapling |
| SEED | Future shoot |
| SEED | Future sunflower |
| SEED | Future watermelon? |
| SEED | Garden planting |
| SEED | Garden starter |
| SEED | Garden store purchase |
| SEED | Gardener's bagful |
| SEED | Gardener's buy |
| SEED | Gardener's item |
| SEED | Gardener's purchase |
| SEED | Gardener's spring purchase |
| SEED | Garden-starting need |
| SEED | Gardner's purchase from which tiny plants grow |
| SEED | Genesis |
| SEED | Germ |
| SEED | Germ of an idea |
| SEED | Germination site |
| SEED | Give a special berth |
| SEED | Go to ___ (deteriorate over time) |
| SEED | Go to ___ (deteriorate) |
| SEED | Grain |
| SEED | Grain planted |
| SEED | Grain that grows into a plant |
| SEED | Growing need |
| SEED | Growing need? |
| SEED | Hothouse need? |
| SEED | Inception of a plant's life |
| SEED | Individual grain |
| SEED | Induce rain from |
| SEED | Inedible item in the center of an avocado |
| SEED | Input for a random-number generator |
| SEED | Issue |
| SEED | It can grow into a plant |
| SEED | It could grow into a plant |
| SEED | It grows into a plant |
| SEED | It grows into a plant when sowed |
| SEED | It sprouts in a garden |
| SEED | It's found inside a fruit or a flower |
| SEED | It's found inside a peach pit |
| SEED | It's often lower than dirt |
| SEED | It's planted in a vegetable garden |
| SEED | It's planted to grow a plant |
| SEED | Item in a gardener's packet |
| SEED | Item in the core of an apple |
| SEED | Item planted in a garden |
| SEED | Jackfruit bit |
| SEED | Kernel |
| SEED | Kind of money |
| SEED | Kind of pearl |
| SEED | Landscaper's bagful |
| SEED | Landscaper's purchase |
| SEED | Lawn repair material |
| SEED | Lawn starter |
| SEED | Lentil or coconut |
| SEED | Lentil, e.g. |
| SEED | Lentil, essentially |
| SEED | Little grain that may be planted |
| SEED | Macaw morsel |
| SEED | Mango pit, e.g. |
| SEED | Mango's one and only? |
| SEED | March Madness datum |
| SEED | March Madness number |
| SEED | March Madness rank |
| SEED | March Madness ranking |
| SEED | Mature fertilised plant ovule |
| SEED | Morsel for a canary |
| SEED | Morsel for a macaw |
| SEED | Morsel for a mourning dove |
| SEED | Morsel in a bird feeder |
| SEED | Morsel on an everything bagel |
| SEED | Navel orange's lack |
| SEED | Navel's lack |
| SEED | No. 1 ___ (tournament favorite) |
| SEED | Notice Dutch origin |
| SEED | Number in a tournament |
| SEED | Number in brackets |
| SEED | Number in brackets? |
| SEED | Number shown in brackets? |
| SEED | Nursery bagful |
| SEED | Nursery supply |
| SEED | Nut, basically |
| SEED | Offspring |
| SEED | One of many inside a jackfruit |
| SEED | One put in bed? |
| SEED | Open favorite |
| SEED | Open placement |
| SEED | Open position |
| SEED | Open position? |
| SEED | Open slot |
| SEED | Origin |
| SEED | Origin of Wimbledon favourite |
| SEED | Origin of a Wimbledon favourite |
| SEED | Outstanding tournament player |
| SEED | Papaya discard |
| SEED | Papaya or watermelon discard |
| SEED | Parakeet food |
| SEED | Parakeet snack |
| SEED | Parakeet treat |
| SEED | Parakeet's meal |
| SEED | Parrot morsel |
| SEED | Parrot owner's buy |
| SEED | Parrot snack |
| SEED | Part of a bed spread? |
| SEED | Part of a gardener's supply |
| SEED | Part of a watermelon you might spit out |
| SEED | Pea or peanut |
| SEED | Peach pit or walnut |
| SEED | Peach pit, e.g. |
| SEED | Peach pit, for example |
| SEED | Peanut, for instance |
| SEED | Piece inside a kabocha |
| SEED | Piece inside a kiwi |
| SEED | Piece inside a muskmelon |
| SEED | Piece inside a pear |
| SEED | Piece inside a pumpkin |
| SEED | Pip |
| SEED | Pip or pit |
| SEED | Pip, kernel |
| SEED | Pit |
| SEED | Placement in a tournament bracket |
| SEED | Plant a ___ of doubt (create uncertainty) |
| SEED | Plant beginning |
| SEED | Plant creator |
| SEED | Plant of the future |
| SEED | Plant origin |
| SEED | Plant ovule |
| SEED | Plant producing unit |
| SEED | Plant source |
| SEED | Plant starter |
| SEED | Plant startup? |
| SEED | Plant's beginning |
| SEED | Plant's origin |
| SEED | Plant's reproduction unit |
| SEED | Plant's start |
| SEED | Plant's tiny and humble beginning |
| SEED | Planter's buy |
| SEED | Planter's need |
| SEED | Plant-to-be |
| SEED | Plant-to-be? |
| SEED | Plum discard |
| SEED | Pod of Wimbledon favourite |
| SEED | Pomegranate bit |
| SEED | Pomegranate morsel |
| SEED | Pomegranate or watermelon bit |
| SEED | Pomegranate's edible part |
| SEED | Poppy ___ |
| SEED | Poppy ___ (bagel variety) |
| SEED | Poppy ___ bagel |
| SEED | Poppy or sesame |
| SEED | Poppy or sunflower bit |
| SEED | Poppy part that may act as a sedative |
| SEED | Position in a single-elimination tournament |
| SEED | Potential flower |
| SEED | Potential plant |
| SEED | Potential poppy |
| SEED | Progeny |
| SEED | Propagative part of a plant |
| SEED | Provide initial funding for |
| SEED | Provide startup funds for |
| SEED | Pumpkin bit |
| SEED | Pumpkin bit that might be baked |
| SEED | Pumpkin part that can be roasted |
| SEED | Quinoa, e.g. |
| SEED | Rank in a tournament |
| SEED | Rank of a player in a tennis competition |
| SEED | Rank, at Wimbledon |
| SEED | Ranked player |
| SEED | Ranked player at Wimbledon |
| SEED | Ranked tournament player |
| SEED | Ranked tourney entrant |
| SEED | Ranking at a tournament |
| SEED | Ranking for Rafa |
| SEED | Ranking for a team or player in a tournament |
| SEED | Ranking for a tennis pro |
| SEED | Ranking in March Madness |
| SEED | Reportedly yield a plant ovule |
| SEED | Reportedly yield an ovule |
| SEED | Reportedly yield origin |
| SEED | Roasted morsel from a pumpkin |
| SEED | Rose starter |
| SEED | Schedule competitively, as a tournament |
| SEED | See 1-Down |
| SEED | See 33-Down |
| SEED | See 42-Across |
| SEED | See 5 Down |
| SEED | Sesame __ |
| SEED | Sesame __ (burger bun tidbit) |
| SEED | Sesame __ bun |
| SEED | Sesame ___ |
| SEED | Sesame ___ (3-Down topper) |
| SEED | Sesame ___ bun |
| SEED | Sesame bit |
| SEED | Sesame or sunflower tidbit |
| SEED | Sesame tidbit on a bagel |
| SEED | Sesame-__ bun |
| SEED | Silene stenophylla produced the oldest - at about 32,000 years - one of these ever to have been successfully grown |
| SEED | Small hard fruit |
| SEED | Small pellet inside a fruit that's usually spit out |
| SEED | Small thing that's planted in a garden |
| SEED | Snack for a finch |
| SEED | Snack for a granivore |
| SEED | Snack for a sparrow |
| SEED | Some bird feed |
| SEED | Some experiments use salt to do this to clouds |
| SEED | Something a strawberry has on the outside |
| SEED | Something that can be sown |
| SEED | Something to go to |
| SEED | Something to sow |
| SEED | Source |
| SEED | Source of a plant |
| SEED | Sow |
| SEED | Sower's flower grower |
| SEED | Sown item |
| SEED | Spit-out bit of a watermelon |
| SEED | Spore |
| SEED | Spring purchase |
| SEED | Spring purchases |
| SEED | Start |
| SEED | Start a garden |
| SEED | Start for a plant |
| SEED | Start of a flower |
| SEED | Start of an idea |
| SEED | Start of something |
| SEED | Start of something big |
| SEED | Start of something big, maybe |
| SEED | Starting point |
| SEED | Starting stage for a plant's life, say |
| SEED | Start-up money |
| SEED | Strong competitor |
| SEED | Strong competitor, probably |
| SEED | Stuff in a bird feeder |
| SEED | Stuff sold in paper packets |
| SEED | Stuff that's sown |
| SEED | Subject of the "Lorax" song "Let It Grow" |
| SEED | Sunflower __; healthy morsel |
| SEED | Sunflower beginning |
| SEED | Sunflower edible |
| SEED | Sunflower morsel |
| SEED | Sunflower or sesame |
| SEED | Sunflower start? |
| SEED | Sunflower yield |
| SEED | Sunflower's starter ... and also what it produces |
| SEED | Symbol of new life, often |
| SEED | Symbol of regeneration |
| SEED | Tennis ranking |
| SEED | Tennis tournament ranking |
| SEED | The Bad ___ |
| SEED | The Coco de mer is the world's largest one of these at up to 55 lb |
| SEED | The beginning of a plant |
| SEED | Thing spit out when enjoying watermelon |
| SEED | This is for the birds |
| SEED | Tidbit for a bird |
| SEED | Tidbit for a parakeet |
| SEED | Tiny item planted in soil |
| SEED | Tiny thing inside a pumpkin |
| SEED | Tiny thing on the outside of a strawberry |
| SEED | Tournament V.I.P. |
| SEED | Tournament competitor |
| SEED | Tournament draw |
| SEED | Tournament entrant's ranking |
| SEED | Tournament favorite |
| SEED | Tournament front-runner |
| SEED | Tournament hotshot |
| SEED | Tournament placing |
| SEED | Tournament player's ranking |
| SEED | Tournament position |
| SEED | Tournament rank |
| SEED | Tournament ranking |
| SEED | Tournament ranking in tennis |
| SEED | Tourney entrant |
| SEED | Tourney favorite |
| SEED | Tourney rank |
| SEED | Tourney ranking |
| SEED | Trail mix bit |
| SEED | Tree-to-be |
| SEED | Used by plants to propagate |
| SEED | Very beginning |
| SEED | Watermelon beginning |
| SEED | Watermelon bit |
| SEED | Watermelon bit one usually spits out |
| SEED | Watermelon bit that's spit out |
| SEED | Watermelon discard |
| SEED | Watermelon eater's annoyance |
| SEED | Watermelon eater's discard |
| SEED | Watermelon part that's spit out |
| SEED | Watermelon piece |
| SEED | Watermelon-eater's discard |
| SEED | What a sunflower grows from |
| SEED | What a watermelon eater might spit out |
| SEED | What a watermelon eater might spit out? |
| SEED | What a watermelon grows from |
| SEED | What grass is grown from |
| SEED | What grass is made from |
| SEED | What is planted in the soil and could become a tree? |
| SEED | What one may sow |
| SEED | What plants grow from |
| SEED | What you plant to get a plant |
| SEED | Wimbledon player's ranking |
| SEED | Witnesses |
| SEED | Word after "poppy" or "sesame" |
| SEED | Word that can follow "poppy" or "sesame" |
| SEED | You might plant it in a vegetable garden |
| SEED | __ capital |
| SEED | ___ catalog (Burpee mailing) |
| SEED | ___ money |
| SEED | ___ money (funding for a startup) |
| SEED | ___ money (start-up funds) |
| SEED | ___ money (start-up's need) |
| SEED | ___ money, start-up's need |
| SEED | *Germ of an idea |