Crossword Clue:

the bud of a rose

AnswerCrossword Clue
SELIGCommissioner Bud who called the 2002 All-Star Game a tie
TRAINEDSEALCoached the singer of "Kiss From a Rose"?
OBOEInstrument in the intro of Seal's "Kiss from a Rose"
TIS"... the last rose of summer" (start of a Thomas Moore poem)
REAREDUPRose on the hind legs, as a horse
HARBORSEALProtect the "Kiss From a Rose" singer from the cops?
NONIAnika ... Rose, 2014 Tony nominee for "A Raisin in the Sun"
ROBERTFROSTHe wrote, "The rose is a rose, - And was always a rose"