Clues for the word "MATURE"
We've had 62 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 132 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Easy crossword on April 02, 2024.
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 Easy - April 02, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - March 20, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - January 23, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - January 19, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 11, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - November 28, 2023
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - November 25, 2023
- Mirror Mini - October 27, 2023
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - October 07, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - September 28, 2023
- Daily Quick - September 19, 2023
- USA Today - September 16, 2023
- LA Times - September 01, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - August 25, 2023
- Mirror Mini - July 31, 2023
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - July 29, 2023
- Mirror Mini - May 29, 2023
- USA Today - April 08, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - April 07, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - March 20, 2023
- Daily Quick - February 10, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - January 22, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - January 19, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - December 30, 2022
- Daily American - December 29, 2022
- Daily Quick - November 23, 2022
- Penny Dell Sunday - November 06, 2022
- Penny Dell Daily - November 03, 2022
- Mirror Mini - October 27, 2022
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - October 20, 2022
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