Clues for the word "MATURE"
We've had 62 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 162 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on February 10, 2026.
Definition of mature
- superl. - Brought by natural process to completeness of growth and development; fitted by growth and development for any function, action, or state, appropriate to its kind; full-grown; ripe.
- superl. - Completely worked out; fully digested or prepared; ready for action; made ready for destined application or use; perfected; as, a mature plan.
- superl. - Of or pertaining to a condition of full development; as, a man of mature years.
- superl. - Come to, or in a state of, completed suppuration.
- v. t. - To bring or hasten to maturity; to promote ripeness in; to ripen; to complete; as, to mature one's plans.
- v. i. - To advance toward maturity; to become ripe; as, wine matures by age; the judgment matures by age and experience.
- v. i. - Hence, to become due, as a note.
Referring Clues
- Like some bonds
- Ready for harvest
- Developed
- Flower
- Turn red, perhaps
- Adultlike
- Like R-rated-film audiences
- Fully developed
- Having little potential for further growth
- What the "M" video game rating stands for
- Come of age
- Fully aged, as wine
- Of age
- Ripe
- Get ripe
- Full-grown
- Fully aged
- Turn red or green, as fruit
- Past adolescence
- With little potential for further growth
- Ripen
- Ready to cash in
- Grown-up
- Grown up
- Past puberty
- Victor of old Hollywood
- Adult
- All grown up
- Ready for picking
- Ready for picking
- Not childish
- Full grown
- Fully grown
- Like audiences for R-rated films
- Ready to be redeemed
- No longer developing
- Post-pubescent
- Old enough to know better and acting like it
- Mellow out
- Acting grown-up
- Grow up
- Like a full-grown adult
- Grown-up (6)
- Like adult lyrics
- Victor was no spring chicken
- Fully ready to get me out of a rut, possibly
- Adult scholar with true disposition
- Adult companion taken round biblical site
- See 20
- The "M" in TV-MA
- It isn't green to take time to replace nitrogen in fertiliser
- Victor acting like a grown-up?
- Ripe, full-grown
- Emotionally developed
- Ready to eat
- Fully developed blend of tea and rum
- Grown-up and dull, rue the transformation
- It's dull - rue becoming an adult
- Begin to flower
- Old enough to master true form?
- Old enough to know better
- Lamarr's "Samson and Delilah" costar
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - February 10, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - December 01, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - November 19, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - September 22, 2025
- Daily Quick - September 19, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - August 14, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - July 08, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - March 18, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - March 11, 2025
- Daily Quick - February 10, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - January 22, 2025
- New York Times - December 31, 2024
- Daily American - December 29, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - December 24, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - December 12, 2024
- Daily Quick - November 23, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - November 12, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - November 10, 2024
- Mirror Mini - October 27, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - October 21, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - October 17, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - October 01, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 20, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - September 19, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - August 18, 2024
- Mirror Mini - July 31, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - July 16, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - July 08, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - June 03, 2024
- Mirror Mini - May 29, 2024
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