Referring Clues

• Ripened
• Old-timers, with "the"
• Like good wine
• Like good burgundy
• Like fine wine
• Medicare-eligible, maybe
• Elderly
• Not young
• Let sit
• Like sharp cheese
• Like some cheddar cheese
• Got on
• Middle-___
• Improved, in a way
• Getting on in years
• Mellowed
• Like some ports
• Got gray
• Got older
• Got on in years
• Long in the tooth
• Like wine
• Seasoned
• Like some cheeses
• Like mellower wines
• Old
• Matured
• Like fine cigars
• Sat in a cask
• Like fine wines
• In a bottle for a long time
• Like ripe cheeses
• Got mellower
• Wrinkled, maybe
• Ready to get drunk, perhaps
• Creaky, maybe
• Like centenarians
• Like some cigars
• Getting on in life
• Like relics
• Like sharp cheddar
• Yellowing, maybe
• Past one's prime
• On in years
• Increased one's candle count
• In one's golden years
• Stored in barrels, perhaps
• They're no spring chickens
• Perfected, in the wine cellar
• Kept in the cellar, perhaps
• Musty and fusty
• Added years
• Like good cheddar cheese
• Got more mature
• Like some expensive wines
• Stored to develop aroma, as tobacco
• Suffered from stress, perhaps
• Grew older
• Didn't open a wine bottle for a while
• Around a long time
• Stored, as burgundy
• Ripened, like cheese
• Like extra-sharp cheddar
• Ending for school or middle
• Sat in a wine cellar
• Grew gray, perhaps
• Grew mature
• ___ to perfection
• Like geriatric patients
• Sat around for years waiting to get drunk?
• Far along in life
• Ancient
• Like good bourbon
• Like some wine and cheese
• Up there, so to speak
• Antiquated
• Like most whiskey
• Improved in a wine cellar
• Like mature cheeses
• Mellowed, in a way
• Like much fine wine
• Like quality balsamic vinegar
• Scotch bottle word
• Like much cheese
• Like many cheeses
• Grew mellow, in a way
• Like a fine Bordeaux
• Got grayer, perhaps
• Left in the wine cellar
• Grew mellow
• Brought to maturity
• Let ripen
• Allowed to mellow
• ___ beef
• Grew up
• Like prime steak
• Mellowed, as wine
• Dry-___ (like some steak)
• Got better, like cheddar
• Survived years
• Ready to get drunk?
• Well past one's prime
• Like fine cheese
• Weather-beaten
• Made cheddar better
• Like some wines and cheeses
• Matured, like wine
• Matured, as wine
• Up in years
• Ripened, as cheese
• Like wine and cheese
• Like a good Bordeaux
• Left childhood, e.g.
• Past one's prime, perhaps
• Venerable
• Like a fine wine
• Like some wines
• Sat in the wine cellar
• Got wrinkled, often
• Like an octogenarian
• Improved, perhaps
• Matured, as cheese
• Like a good steak
• Allowed to improve, as cheeses
• Became mellow
• Got some seasoning
• Like much wine and cheese
• Got on in life
• Kept in a cellar, perhaps
• Given time to ripen
• Matured, as cheddar
• ___ beef
• Like some cheddar
• Dry-___ (like great steak)
• Brought to a desired stage, as wine
• Like many ports
• Began to pucker, perhaps?
• Kept in a cellar for a long time
• Even-___ (of similar height, as forest trees)
• In the 40s?
• Improved by time
• Turned gray, say
• Like hard cheese
• Added candles to the cake, as it were
• Not a spring chicken
• Like some cheese
• Mature
• Senior
• Getting on
• Archaic
• Improved, as wine
• Improved in the bottle
• Pushing 90, maybe
• Like some beef
• Entered a new decade, say
• Puckered, say
• Like balsamic vinegar
• Like Virginia hams
• Worn
• Made mellow
• Brought to mellowness, as cheese or wine
• Started to pucker up, perhaps?
• Like a prized cabernet, say
• ___ cheddar
• Like one born in 1920, now
• Grew older and wiser
• Word on a bottle of Scotch
• Passed one's prime?
• Advanced in years
• Made it through another day, in a way
• Superannuated
• Very old
• Like some whiskey
• Started to pucker up?
• Like cognac
• Like fine whiskeys
• Like good cheddar
• Brought to desired maturity
• Became more mellow
• Left childhood
• Timeworn
• Got long in the tooth
• Like single-malt scotch
• Got a little older
• Like a good port
• Like sharp Canadian cheddar
• Like cheese or whiskey
• Mellowed, perhaps
• Got wiser, hopefully
• Became more mature
• Made better, as cheddar
• Left in a barrel, perhaps
• Kept in a vat, say
• Like fine port
• Like fine Burgundy
• Kept in the cellar, maybe
• Like supercentenarians
• Like extra sharp cheddar, say
• Kept underground, maybe
• Mellowed, like cheese
• Put in for extra time?
• Became ripe
• Allowed to ripen, as cheddar
• Acquired wisdom, per a saying
• Like this puzzle?
• Well-seasoned
• Got ripe
• Like much cheese and wine
• Got along in years
• Like Gruyère cheese, for 5-12 months
• Like Scotch whisky
• See 40-Across
• Like fine wines and cheeses
• Barrel-___ scotch
• Like fine scotch
• ___ in the wood
• Like good Scotch
• Having packed on the years
• Like much whiskey
• Ripe, as cheese
• Accumulated years
• Got mellow
• Like much brandy
• Went from tween to teen, say
• Gained "life experience"
• See 21-Down
• Like Parmesan cheese
• Like port, usually
• Mellowed, maybe
• Like excellent brandy
• Middle-___ (40-ish)
• Unlike spring chickens?
• Got up there
• Over the hill
• Like quality beef
• Treated like wine
• Like expensive wine
• Grown old
• Kept in barrels, maybe
• Like all Scotch whiskey
• Like some wine
• Grew old
• Matured, like fine cheese
• Became older
• Having had many birthdays
• Got grayer
• Like fine wine or cheese
• Gained years
• Old French artist not quite up
• Old silver found by Miliband
• Got old
• Like some cheddars
• Grew older and older
• Approached retirement
• Having lived many years
• Like fine cheeses
• Got a touch of gray
• Got better, maybe
• Like Scotch
• Added years to one's existence
• Like expensive cheese
• Vintage
• Like good cheese
• Stored in a cask
• No spring chicken
• Keith Richards' look
• Pulp "Help the ___"
• Jerry Lee Lewis "Middle ___ Crazy"
• What old rocker looks
• Like old album covers
• Detroit band 100 Proof (___ in Soul)
• Funksters 100 Proof (___ in Soul)
• Pulp wants to "Help" them?
• Like old strings
• Like Keith Richards, or a fine wine?
• George Jones "I've ___ Twenty Years in Five"
• Like classic act that still tours
• See 16
• Old French painter coming up short
• Old Bill nabbing revolutionary for one
• Being old, agreed about being dropped
• Though old, managed without a valet
• Though old, managed without a servant
• See 4
• To help such people could have been a charity
• Old people imprisoned - many lost
• Like the veterans who started to back De Gaulle
• Elderly to a rising degree!
• In one's vintage days?
• Like some of those stage-door Johnnies?
• The old man at first got along all right
• Though elderly, managed without a husband
• Like some old stage door Johnnies
• Agreed about evacuating the old
• Any number of years old?
• Old silver mine found at last
• Old retired painter abandons society
• Agreed, but not about being old
• By no means all stage directors are old
• Like a fine Merlot
• Got gray, say
• Like premium rum
• Like Smithfield hams
• Old French artist when climbing loses direction
• French painter rises shortly over the hill
• Old painter's abridged reflection
• Elderly painter largely rejected
• Elderly artist not quite making a comeback
• Having got on, agreed about having been left out
• Old notes used after silver
• Part for tragedian like King Lear
• Old painter almost retired
• Old silver used before notes
• Kept in a barrel, perhaps
• But not too old to get a bit enraged?
• Like high-quality wine or cheese
• Venerable, in a way
• Like single-malt whiskey
• Grew gray
• Like bock beer
• Like some coffee beans
• Became ripe over time
• Became mature
• Became old
• See 12
• Artist endlessly climbing over the hill
• Rising artist, ignoring society, matured
• Old and heartless, OK!
• Matured by a good education
• Old painter to return shortly
• Grew up, having coped with him leaving
• Matured like a good journalist
• Penned in, about to go off the older generation
• Advanced alternative, say, in modern times
• Elderly impressionist turning up shortly
• Old French artist almost returned
• Elderly French artist almost set up
• Old pike or luce
• See 1
• Old if unqualified
• Old artist making comeback, not finished
• Piled on the years
• Like the best wines
• Old artist mostly upset
• Improved over time, like fine cheese or Scotch
• With many birthdays
• Cellared, as Sauvignon
• Like much good steak
• Yellowed or grayed, perhaps
• Improved in a cask
• Developed
• Like good scotch or cheddar
• Old French artist not quite coming round
• Unlike moonshine, as whiskeys go
• Ready for decanting
• Improved like wine
• Like much Scotch
• Like a centenarian
• Way past one's prime
• Lived day after day
• Improved by time, as wine
• Stored for improvement, as cheddar
• Ripened with time
• Like all Scotch whisky
• Like some beef or cheese
• Stored before selling
• Approached one's golden years
• Like bourbon
• Kept in a wine cellar
• What Benjamin Button did backward
• Having lived long
• Like straight bourbon, for a minimum of two years
• Improved, as cheese
• Mellowed in a cask
• Like much cheese and steak
• Altered by time
• Like Scotch, for a minimum of three years
• Getting on after the man, contrived to
• Unlike moonshine, typically
• Like some old sausage dogs
• Like whiskey in barrels
• Venerable part of tragedy
• Refined, like some cheddar
• Like wine, but not grape juice
• Like some cheeses and wines
• Improved in a barrel
• Like those old Johnnies in the stage door?
• Improved with time, as wine
• Barrel-___ maple syrup
• Like prime steaks
• Being old can seem a bit of a tragedy
• Like wine and cheese, typically
• Changed by time
• Got ripe, via time
• Ripened, say
• Matured, in a way
• Improved, like a cigar
• Barrel-___
• Like expensive cheddar
• Allowed to improve with time
• Left to improve, as in some 80 Down
• Like Parmesan, but not mozzarella
• Like fine balsamic vinegar
• Like Zhenjiang vinegar
• Like fancy cheese
• Like some brownish vodkas
• Let develop, in a way
• Longevous
• Like many wines and cheeses
• Like some dried meats
• Kept underground, say
• Dry-___ beef
• Like many fine rums
• Barrel-___ soy sauce
• Spent some time in a cellar, say
• Gray-haired, say
• Like most black vinegars
• Disposal
• Like whiskey and wine
• Like manchego but not paneer
• Like fine wine, but not fine olive oil
• In one's vintage days?
• Like some of those stage-door Johnnies?
• Like the expensive stuff, often
• "Well, that comment ___ like milk"
• Like flavorful beef or cheddar
• Like whiskey
• Kept in a barrel
• Like many fine wines
• Matured, as cheeses
• Got more and more mature
• But not too old to get a bit enraged?
• Like black vinegar
• Got up there in years
• Developed, in a way
• Like Parmigiano Reggiano
• Grew lovelier every year
• Added on the months
• ___ like milk: looked bad in hindsight
• Middle-___ (around 40)
• Like some fancy cheeses and wines