- RIPE
- In one's prime
- Mature
- Ready for picking
- Ready to pluck
- Mellow
- Ready to eat
- Ready to eat, say
- Smelly, as it were
- Opportune
- Pungent
- Like an avocado that gives just a bit when you squeeze it
- Juicy, perhaps
- Nubile, in a way
- Ready
- Ready to be eaten
- Stinky
- Suitable for picking
- Far enough along
- At fruition
- Pickable
- Fully mature
- Ready for harvest
- Like yellow bananas
- No longer green?
- Stinking
- Pluck-worthy
- Fit for picking
- Somewhat smelly
- Odoriferous, say
- Ready for harvesting
- Ready to 5-Down, say
- Pluckable
- Plump and juicy
- Ready for the cotton picker
- Ready for use
- Ready for plucking
- Ready to be picked
- Perfect for picking
- Ready to pick
- Foul-smelling
- Good to taste, or bad to smell
- Like a yellow banana
- Ready to be plucked
- Like a black olive
- Old age preceder?
- Perfect for plucking
- Like old age?
- Really smelly
- Good and juicy
- Harvest-ready
- Like a soft avocado
- Prime for picking
- Like some bananas
- Ready for collection
- About to be picked
- Experienced
- Red, in many cases
- Ready for reaping
- Ready for the harvest
- Ready to reap
- Ready for the picking
- Red, perhaps
- Fully prepared
- Like a red tomato
- No longer green, perhaps
- Preceder of old age?
- Like orange or red persimmons
- Advanced, as old age
- Fit for harvesting
- Ready on the vine
- Smelly
- Begging to be picked
- Ready in the field
- Fully developed
- Like avocados ready for guacamole
- Ready to harvest
- __ old age
- Red outside, maybe
- Like a red Red Delicious
- Like a fragrant melon
- Like a yellow papaya
- Like peaches in summer
- Ready to be harvested
- Auspicious
- All set to eat
- Auspicious, as time
- Ready for the farm stand
- Mature enough to harvest
- Ready to retrieve
- Matured
- Ready to eat, as fruit
- Ready now
- Fully grown
- At the fitting stage
- Fully matured
- Propitious
- With 26 Down, tapenade ingredient
- As good as it gets
- Now suitable for eating
- Ready (for)
- Ready to bite into
- Ready to eat, in a way
- Badly in need of a wash
- Red, maybe
- Suitable
- Like a black blackberry
- Advanced in years.
- Edible.
- Ready for eating.
- Ready for action.
- Ready for gathering.
- A kind of old age.
- Kind of old age.
- Perfected.
- Full-blown.
- In season.
- Consummate.
- Sufficiently advanced.
- Seasoned
- Full-grown.
- ___ olives.
- Herrick's "Cherry ___."
- ___ for picking.
- Certain olives
- Developed
- Suitable for plucking
- Cherry ___, poem by Herrick
- Ready for the reaper
- Not green
- Cherry ___, Herrick poem
- An adjective for old age
- What the time is, at times
- Timely
- Quite ready
- Ready enough
- Good enough to eat
- Properly aged
- Like overused gym clothes
- Fully prepared (for)
- It may precede old age
- Red, as an apple
- Between green and black, maybe
- Fully ready
- Between green and black, say
- Rather smelly
- Stinky, as gym clothes
- Like many old gym socks
- Smelly, as post-workout clothes
- Fully red, as a raspberry
- Sufficiently aged
- Yellow, as a banana
- Finally edible
- Strong-smelling, say
- Offensive-smelling
- Like yellow 17-Acrosses
- Having sat in the locker room way too long
- Well positioned (for)
- Like thumped watermelons making a deep sound
- Ready ... or red, maybe
- As good as it's going to get?
- Completely ready
- Primed (for)
- What comes before old age?
- Quite stinky
- Ready, in a way
- Like dark green avocados
- Fully aged
- With 120- and 86-Down, what centenarians live to
- Band ready for the big time
- Pickable Ben Lee song?
- Rocker ready for the big time
- Very pluckable
- Having gained the benefits of time
- Adequately soft, say
- No longer green, say
- Harvestable
- Ready for the pickin'
- At its best
- Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ___ (Job 13:13)
- Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ___ (Joel)
- Good enough to eat, in a way
- Entirely edible
- Fit for pickin'
- Finished growing on the vine
- Ready to get picked
- Like ready fruit
- No longer needing the vine
- Unlike a green banana
- Juicy, maybe
- Like a red strawberry
- Like a yellow lemon
- Ready for a fruit salad
- Like a soft, juicy mango
- At its peak
- Finally good enough to eat
- Like edible fruit
- Like unwashed gym clothes
- Mature on the vine
- Mature, as fruit
- Having a foul 11-Down
- Like a soft persimmon
- Like a coconut that falls from its tree
- Like a golden yellow mango
- Ready to pluck and eat
- Yielding slightly to a gentle squeeze, as a peach
- Like a golden-yellow pineapple
- Like a juicy, aromatic mango
- Like a soft mango
- Like a yellow banana with spots
- Like ready-to-eat fruit
- Like an avocado that's soft but not mushy
- Like black olives
- Green's opposite
- Like a juicy strawberry
- Like plump blueberries
- Ready to be picked, as blueberries
- Fully developed, as in a grove
- Pickable, as berries
- Mellow, as cheese
- Like a golden papaya
- Due for harvesting
- Pickable, perhaps
- Malodorous
