Answer:

bud

Answer	Crossword Clue
BUD	Flower starter
BUD	Unopened flower
BUD	Lou's partner

BUD	Start of a flower
BUD	4:20 stuff
BUD	Pal
BUD	Flower-to-be
BUD	What frost might nip
BUD	Mac
BUD	Shoot-to-be
BUD	Crony

BUD	Bloom-to-be
BUD	Flower at first
BUD	Reproduce asexually
BUD	Shoot
BUD	Spring sight
BUD	Good friend
BUD	Bloomer
BUD	Baby bloomer

BUD	Flower child?
BUD	"Father Knows Best" son
BUD	Future flower
BUD	Spring sign
BUD	Harbinger of spring
BUD	Spring growth
BUD	Begin to develop
BUD	Miller rival

BUD	Son on "Married... With Children"
BUD	Al Bundy's boy
BUD	Baseball commissioner Selig
BUD	Begin blooming
BUD	Unexpanded flower
BUD	Not quite a bloomer
BUD	Close pal
BUD	Compadre

BUD	Blossom-to-be
BUD	Flower part
BUD	Bloom's beginning
BUD	Future fuchsia
BUD	Sign of spring