Sesame ____

The answer

SEED

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the SEED answer page.

Used 9 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2013. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other answers for this clue

The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.

• TIL (110 uses in xd)
• OPEN (32 uses in xd)
• STREET (19 uses in xd)
• BENNE (9 uses in xd)
• OIL (3 uses in xd)

Other clues for SEED

Every other clue in this collection answered by SEED, most used first.

• Tournament ranking - used 53 times, most recently in 2026
• Germ - used 48 times, most recently in 2026
• Future flower - used 47 times, most recently in 2026
• Feeder filler - used 42 times, most recently in 2026
• Sesame ___ bun - used 33 times, most recently in 2026
• Start a garden - used 31 times, most recently in 2025
• Canary snack - used 30 times, most recently in 2026
• Progeny - used 28 times, most recently in 2015
• Bird food - used 25 times, most recently in 2024
• Origin - used 25 times, most recently in 2025
• Bit of bird food - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
• Kernel - used 21 times, most recently in 2026
• Plant starter - used 21 times, most recently in 2026
• Plant-to-be - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
• Sow - used 20 times, most recently in 2016
• Beginning - used 19 times, most recently in 2007
• Bird-feeder food - used 19 times, most recently in 2025
• Potential plant - used 19 times, most recently in 2025
• Future plant - used 18 times, most recently in 2025
• Tourney ranking - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
• Burpee buy - used 15 times, most recently in 2025
• Gardener's purchase - used 15 times, most recently in 2021
• Tourney rank - used 14 times, most recently in 2023
• Acorn, essentially - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
• Gardener's spring purchase - used 13 times, most recently in 2024
• Sunflower edible - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
• Bird feeder filler - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
• Bird feeder tidbit - used 12 times, most recently in 2024
• Pit - used 12 times, most recently in 2024
• Spore - used 12 times, most recently in 1996
• Germ of an idea - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
• Kind of pearl - used 11 times, most recently in 2006
• Pomegranate bit - used 11 times, most recently in 2024
• Lentil, e.g. - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• Parakeet food - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
• ___ pearl. - used 10 times, most recently in 1979
• Start of something big - used 10 times, most recently in 2022
• Tournament position - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
• Bird feeder bit - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
• Farmer's purchase - used 9 times, most recently in 2019
• Garden starter - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
• Kind of money - used 9 times, most recently in 2008
• Plant - used 9 times, most recently in 2006
• Starting point - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
• Watermelon discard - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
• Acorn, for one - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Burger bun tidbit - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Go to ___ (deteriorate) - used 8 times, most recently in 2016
• Grain. - used 8 times, most recently in 1973
• It's for the birds - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
• Parrot snack - used 8 times, most recently in 2021
• Pip - used 8 times, most recently in 2021
• Pippin - used 8 times, most recently in 2012
• Provide capital for - used 8 times, most recently in 2011
• Spring purchase - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
• Sunflower start - used 8 times, most recently in 2005
• Tennis ranking - used 8 times, most recently in 2014
• Watermelon eater's discard - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
• Edible sunflower bit - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Growing need? - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• It needs room to grow - used 7 times, most recently in 2009
• Ranked player - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Source - used 7 times, most recently in 2021
• Start of an idea - used 7 times, most recently in 2020
• Watermelon bit - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Avocado pit, e.g. - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Flower starter - used 6 times, most recently in 2016
• March Madness ranking - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• ___ money - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
• Parakeets' eats - used 6 times, most recently in 2009
• Plant's beginning - used 6 times, most recently in 2013
• Start a lawn - used 6 times, most recently in 2004

Related clues

Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.

• "___ sesame!" - OPEN, used 32 times
• Ernie's "Sesame Street" pal - BERT, used 29 times
• "Sesame Street" basics - ABCS, used 28 times
• Ticklish "Sesame Street" Muppet - ELMO, used 17 times
• "Sesame Street" character - ELMO, used 16 times
• "Sesame Street" giggler - ELMO, used 16 times

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