The Clue
Rather smelly (4 letter answer)
The Answer
RIPE
Tags
Notes
The answer RIPE is seen frequently, appearing about once every 100 puzzles.
Related Clues
Consummate
Mature
Mellow
Opportune
Pickable
Pluckable
Ready
Seasoned
Finally edible
Full-blown
Full-fledged
Fully grown
Fully prepared
Fully ready
Not green
Ready to eat
Ready enough
Ready for harvest
Ready for harvesting
Ready to pick
Ready for picking
Ready for reaping
Sufficiently aged
Yellow, as a banana
"Cherry ___," Herrick poem
Fully red, as a raspberry
Good enough to eat
Like a yellow banana
No longer green
Ready to be eaten
Like overused gym clothes
Definition
RIPE as an adjective:
1. (ripe, mature) = fully developed or matured and ready to be eaten or used; "ripe peaches"; "full-bodied mature wines"
2. fully prepared or eager; "the colonists were ripe for revolution"
3. (good, right, ripe) = most suitable or right for a particular purpose; "a good time to plant tomatoes"; "the right time to act"; "the time is ripe for great sociological changes"
4. at the highest point of development especially in judgment or knowledge; "a ripe mind"
5. (advanced, ripe) = far along in time; "a man of advanced age"; "advanced in years"; "a ripe old age"; "the ripe age of 90"