The Clue
Ready for the harvest (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
Pluckable
Ready
Ready (for)
Seasoned
Finally edible
Full-fledged
Fully developed
Fully grown
Fully prepared (for)
Herrick's "Cherry-___"
Not green
In one's prime
Quite ready
Rather smelly
Ready for action
Ready to eat
Ready enough
Ready for harvest
Ready for picking
Ready for plucking
Ready for the reaper
Ready for reaping
Red, as an apple
"Cherry ___," Herrick poem
"Cherry-___," Herrick poem
"Cherry ___," poem by Herrick
Fully red, as a raspberry
Ready to be eaten
Ready to be plucked
Between green and black, maybe
Like many old gym socks
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"