Crossword-Solution: OVERRIPE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Overripe | a. | Matured to excess. |
We have 17 clues for the answer “OVERRIPE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Like a mushy banana, say | 1 answer |
| Turning brown, as a banana | 1 answer |
| Too mellow. | 1 answer |
| Too mature. | 1 answer |
| Somewhat spoiled | 1 answer |
| Mushy or decadent | 1 answer |
| Like black bananas | 1 answer |
| Like bananas used for bread, often | 1 answer |
| Like a dark-brown banana | 1 answer |
| Inedible, in a way | 1 answer |
| Past its best | 2 answers |
| Like a rotten apple | 2 answers |
| Bitter, say | 3 answers |
| More than ready | 8 answers |
| BLACK FRUIT | 10 answers |
| Decadent | 18 answers |
| Decayed | 65 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ATEER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with OVERRIPE (5)
That evening there was a grand reception in the royal palace, attended by the most important persons of Oz, and Jack Pumpkinhead, who was a little overripe but still active, read an address congratulating Ozma of Oz upon the success of her generous mission to rescue the royal family of a neighboring kingdom.
There is no need of your shaking my family tree in the belief that a few overripe patients will fall out.
Then an overripe potato whizzed through the air and burst against the shop wall a few inches from the reader's head.
Polyandry is getting to be the normal condition of the Church; and about the time a man is becoming a little overripe for the livelier human sentiments, he may be pretty sure the women are looking round to find him a colleague.
The air, through banging doors, entered in damp, warm gusts, heavy with the stale, slightly sweet taste of the London season when the London season is overripe and spoiling.
Quotes with OVERRIPE (3)
Many scholars forget, it seems to me, that our enjoyment of the great works of literature depends more upon the depth of our sympathy than upon our understanding. The trouble is that very few of their laborious explanations stick in the memory. The mind drops them as a branch drops its overripe fruit. ... Again and again I ask impatiently, "Why concern myself with these explanations and hypotheses?" They fly hither and thither in my thought like blind birds beating the air wi…
The heart beneath the breastbone pumping. The blood on its appointed rounds. Life in small places, narrow crannies. In the leaves, the toad's pulse. The delicate cellular warfare in a waterdrop. A dextrocardiac, said the smiling doctor. Your heart's in the right place. Weathershrunk and loveless. The skin drawn and split like an overripe fruit.
Rincewind sighed, and padded around the base of the tower toward the Library. Towards where the Library had been. There was the arch of the doorway, and most of the walls were still standing, but a lot of the roof had fallen in and everything was blackened by soot. Rincewind stood and stared for a long time. Then he dropped the carpet and ran, stumbling and sliding through the rubble that half-blocked the doorway. The stones were still warm underfoot. Here and there the wreck…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NYT, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 12 times in crossword archives (1955–2020).