Clues for the word "RIPEST"
We've had 37 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 45 times in crosswords. It was last seen in LA Times crossword on February 12, 2026.
Referring Clues
- At the highest development
- Readiest for picking
- At the peak of maturity
- Most ready
- Best for picking
- Most ready for plucking
- Most likely to fall from a tree
- At the peak of maturity, as an apple
- Nearest to rotten
- Most red, maybe
- Least green
- Most mature
- Most pickable
- Most mellow
- Most mellow
- Most ready for picking
- Most aged
- At maximal maturity
- Most fully matured
- Most edible, in a way
- Best for consumption, perhaps
- Most developed
- Pick of the crop
- Most ready to be picked
- Most ready to eat
- New priest, maybe, yet most mature
- Best to pick, say
- Least green, as fruit
- Least green, maybe
- Superlatively mature
- Closest to spoiling
- Most likely to be picked, say
- Best for harvesting
- Most smelly
- Most mature priest, possibly
- Most green, perhaps
- Like the most yellow banana on the tree
Last Seen In
- LA Times - February 12, 2026
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - August 12, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - January 18, 2024
- USA Today - December 01, 2023
- LA Times - October 06, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - August 16, 2022
- New York Times - February 04, 2022
- Penny Dell Daily - January 09, 2018
- Universal - December 21, 2017
- Evening Standard Cryptic - November 20, 2017
- Penny Dell Daily - October 16, 2017
- Mirror Classic - September 29, 2017
- Penny Dell Daily - September 27, 2017
- Washington Post Classic - June 11, 2017
- King Syndicate - Premier Sunday - December 27, 2015
- LA Times - December 19, 2015
- LA Times - October 23, 2015
- Universal - July 31, 2015
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - December 27, 2014
- Universal - June 15, 2014
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - September 01, 2012
- New York Times - August 03, 2012
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - April 04, 2012
- New York Times - April 03, 2011
- Chronicle of Higher Education - January 14, 2011
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - September 01, 2010
- King Syndicate - Premier Sunday - June 13, 2010
- New York Times - March 29, 2010
- Universal - January 15, 2010
- King Syndicate - Premier Sunday - May 31, 2009
- And in 15 more crossword puzzles...