The Clue
Ready for action (4 letter answer)
The Answer
RIPE
Tags
Notes
The answer RIPE is seen frequently, appearing about once every 100 puzzles.
Related Clues
Auspicious
Developed
Mature
Mellow
Opportune
Pluckable
Ready
Smelly
Timely
Fully grown
Fully prepared
Not green
In one's prime
Quite ready
Rather smelly
Ready to eat
Ready for harvest
Ready for harvesting
Ready to pick
Ready for picking
Ready to pluck
Ready for plucking
Ready for the reaper
Ready for reaping
Ready for use
"Cherry-___," Herrick poem
Good enough to eat
Ready to be picked
Ready to be plucked
Strong-smelling, say
Between green and black, maybe
Smelly, as post-workout clothes
It may precede old age
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"