| BURGEON | A bud or young shoot |
| SPROUT | Green vegetable or young shoot (6) |
| EAR | Place for a bud or a stud |
| SWAG | A bend or bow; a burglar's bulging bag of booty or boodle; a beautifying botanical band or bays of berries, blooms, bracts or buds; or, a bushman's bedroll or bundle of belongings (4) |
| BROWSE | From "sprout", word for young shoots and twigs eaten by animals; a nibble or graze on said vegetation; or, a leaf through, peruse, scan or skim (6) |
| SLIP | Part of a plant (sometimes a root, a leaf or a bud) removed to propagate a new plant through rooting or grafting! (4) |
| SCION | What is a young shoot of a plant cut for grafting or rooting? (5) |
| GEM | Word for a bud originally, later a diamond, emerald or other precious stone, hence a person held to be flawless, outstanding or a treasure (3) |
| FLOWERAGE | A somewhat rare or poetic word for a bud's blooming, blossoming or burgeoning forth; or, an efflorescent mass of buttercups, daisies, pansies, pinks, roses, violets or other petalled "anthos" of garde |
| BUDGE | Remove a young shoot at some stage |
| BUDDY | Does his friendship grow like a young shoot? (5) |
| CYME | A young shoot (bot) (4) |
| CAPERS | Word for playful leaps or skips in a goat-like frolicking manner; high-spirited escapades; questionable acts; light-hearted heist films; or, pickled piquant flower-buds or berries of bramble-like vine |
| GEMMA | Plant bud, or a girl's name meaning "jewel" |
| BUTTON | Any one of the bijou nacre objects ornamenting the costumes of the London costermongers known as pearly kings/queens; a bud; a small disc of chocolate; a knob at the end of a foil; or, anything of lit |
| KNOSP | From German, a flower's unopened bud or an architectural feature resembling it |
| SPRIT | Young shoot (5) |
| SPRIG | Young shoot |
| SHOOTS | Photographic sessions; emerging stems or buds; or, areas of woodland or farmland for hunting game (6) |
| BEER | Bud or Sam |
