Answer: RIPE
RIPE is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 168 times.
Referring Clues:
- Properly aged
- Pluckable
- Full-fledged
- Ready
- Ready to be picked
- Ready for plucking
- Pickable
- Opportune
- Like a yellow banana
- Ready to eat
- Ready to pluck
- Like overused gym clothes
- Fully developed
- Red, as an apple
- It may precede old age
- Fully prepared (for)
- Ready to pick
- No longer green
- Seasoned
- Ready for picking
- Red, maybe
- Fully ready
- Between green and black, maybe
- Between green and black, say
- Stinky, as gym clothes
- Rather smelly
- Perfect for picking
- Ready for harvest
- Mature
- Foul-smelling
- Good to taste, or bad to smell
- Ready to be plucked
- Like a black olive
- Really smelly
- Like old age?
- Old age preceder?
- Like many old gym socks
- Smelly, as post-workout clothes
- Ready to be eaten
- Smelly
- Mellow
- Suitable
- Like a black blackberry
- Stinky
- Fit for picking
- Red, in many cases
- Ready to harvest
- Ready to retrieve
- Mature enough to harvest
- Ready to reap
- Matured
- Ready for the farm stand
- Auspicious, as time
- Entirely edible
- About to be picked
- Harvest-ready
- At fruition
- Good and juicy
- Fully matured
- Like unwashed gym clothes
- Good enough to eat
- Like edible fruit
- Finally good enough to eat
- Finished growing on the vine
- Ready enough
- Fully red, as a raspberry
- Ready to eat, as fruit
- Ready for the picking
- Ready now
- Very pluckable
- Like black olives
- Red and juicy
- Fully grown
- Mellowed
- Green's opposite
- Fit for pickin'
- Sufficiently aged
- Auspicious
- Yellow, as a banana
- Red, perhaps
- Prime for picking
- Finally edible
- Not green
- Ready for eating
- Fully aged
- Like a golden papaya
- Smelly, as underwear
- Justiciable go-with
- Like a soft avocado
- Harvestable
- With 120- and 86-Down, what centenarians live to
- Like some fruit
- Ready for harvesting
- Mature, as fruit
- Tempered
- Strong-smelling, say
- Like yellow bananas
- Ready (for)
- Mature on the vine
- What an issue must be before a court
- Aged
- Ready, as a raspberry
- No longer green, perhaps
- Ready to be harvested
- Like a red tomato
- Fully prepared
- Offensive-smelling
- Ready for the pickin'
- Preceder of old age?
- At the fitting stage
- With 26 Down, tapenade ingredient
- Ready to happen
- Like a soft persimmon
- Full-blown
- Ready for reaping
- Timely
- Like yellow 17-Acrosses
- Propitious
- Unlike green tomatoes
- Ready to get picked
- Good enough to eat, in a way
- Fully mature
- Well positioned (for)
- Ready for the reaper
- Like orange or red persimmons
- Having sat in the locker room way too long
- No longer needing the vine
- Having a foul 11-Down
- Unlike a green banana
- Ready ... or red, maybe
- Advanced, as old age
- Ready on the vine
- Now suitable for eating
- As good as it gets
- "Cherry-___" Herrick poem
- Fit for harvesting
- Like thumped watermelons making a deep sound
- Begging to be picked
- No longer green, say
- Ready in the field
- As good as it's going to get?
- Like avocados ready for guacamole
- Yielding slightly to a gentle squeeze, as a peach
- Ready to bite into
- Completely ready
- Ready to eat, in a way
- Ready for a fruit salad
- What comes before old age?
- Like a yellow lemon
- ___ old age
- Primed (for)
- Red outside, maybe
- Like a yellow papaya
- Like a golden-yellow pineapple
- Quite stinky
- Like a juicy, aromatic mango
- Like a red Red Delicious
- Ready, in a way
- Like dark green avocados
- Like a fragrant melon
- Like peaches in summer
- Like an avocado that's soft but not mushy
- Perfect for a salad, say
- Fragrant, in a bad way
- Funky
- Like plump peaches, typically
- Malodorous
- ___ for the picking
Last Seen In:
- New York Times - September 08, 2025
- New York Times - August 10, 2025
- New York Times - June 07, 2025
- USA Today - June 05, 2025
- LA Times - April 16, 2025
- USA Today - April 01, 2025
- LA Times - March 25, 2025
- New York Times - March 12, 2025
- New York Times - February 22, 2025
- LA Times - January 19, 2025
- New York Times - January 13, 2025
- New York Times - January 05, 2025
- New York Times - December 09, 2024
- USA Today - October 15, 2024
- New York Times - July 24, 2024
- LA Times - July 16, 2024
- USA Today - June 27, 2024
- LA Times - June 10, 2024
- LA Times - May 02, 2024
- New York Times - March 25, 2024
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