Clues for the word "RIPER"
We've had 59 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 131 times in crosswords. It was last seen in LA Times crossword on December 10, 2025.
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 ready to be picked
- More prepared
- Getting the right one through being more mature
- Juicier, as a pear
- Readier for harvesting
- More developed
- Last words on monarch are not so green
- On the way to getting mellow in bar, I perceive
- More pickable
- Nearer to maturity
- Tenderer, maybe
- Less green, say
- More yellow, but not yet brown, say
- More ready to eat
- Redder, perhaps
- Closer to being ready to pick
- Readier for picking
- Less green, as a banana
- ___ years (old age)
- More edible, perhaps
Last Seen In
- LA Times - December 10, 2025
- Daily American - November 29, 2025
- Mirror Daily - November 02, 2025
- Daily Quick - October 06, 2025
- Mirror Daily - September 03, 2025
- Mirror Daily - August 20, 2025
- Mirror Daily - July 18, 2025
- Daily American - April 25, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - April 23, 2025
- New York Times - April 13, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - April 06, 2025
- Mirror Daily - March 20, 2025
- Daily American - November 23, 2024
- Mirror Daily - November 18, 2024
- Daily American - November 13, 2024
- Daily Quick - August 22, 2024
- Mirror Daily - June 17, 2024
- Mirror Daily - April 17, 2024
- Mirror Daily - March 26, 2024
- Daily Quick - March 19, 2024
- Daily Quick - February 21, 2024
- Daily American - November 29, 2023
- Mirror Daily - November 24, 2023
- New York Times - November 12, 2023
- Mirror Daily - October 26, 2023
- Daily Quick - October 06, 2023
- New York Times - August 16, 2023
- Mirror Daily - July 12, 2023
- New York Times - June 14, 2023
- USA Today - May 01, 2023
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