Answer: RIPER
RIPER is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 51 times.
Referring Clues:
- More mellow
- Less green
- Not so green
- More ready
- More suitable
- More fully developed
- More aged
- Closer to its prime
- Redder, as a tomato
- Not as green
- More red, maybe
- More edible, as a fruit
- More apt to be picked
- More mature
- More auspicious
- Like red peppers, vis-à-vis green ones
- More advanced, in a way
- Closer to maturity
- Not as green, perhaps
- Closer to fruition
- More red, as a tomato
- Yellower, as a banana
- More fleshy, perhaps
- Not as immature
- Sweeter and juicier
- Not as green, maybe
- More fit for picking
- More fit for picking
- Softer, as a banana
- Less green, perhaps
- More suitable for eating, perhaps
- Relatively ready
- Closer to being harvested
- Readier to pick
- More fit for harvesting
- More ready, in a way
- Less green, as an orange
- Readier for eating
- Closer to pluck-worthy
- More pickable
- Nearer to maturity
- Tenderer, maybe
- Less green, say
- More yellow, but not yet brown, say
- More ready to eat
- More harvest-ready
- Redder, perhaps
- Closer to being ready to pick
- Readier for picking
- Less green, as a banana
- ___ years (old age)
Last Seen In:
- New York Times - November 12, 2023
- New York Times - August 16, 2023
- New York Times - June 14, 2023
- USA Today - May 01, 2023
- USA Today - April 05, 2023
- LA Times - August 09, 2021
- LA Times - February 28, 2021
- USA Today - January 11, 2021
- USA Today - October 02, 2020
- Netword - September 14, 2020
- New York Times - April 19, 2020
- New York Times - January 26, 2020
- LA Times - January 19, 2020
- New York Times - September 21, 2019
- New York Times - June 19, 2019
- LA Times - April 02, 2019
- USA Today - October 22, 2018
- Universal - July 26, 2018
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - April 27, 2018
- Universal - January 14, 2018
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