Reach perfection

The answer

RIPEN

5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the RIPEN answer page.

Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2008. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for RIPEN

Every other clue in this collection answered by RIPEN, most used first.

• Mature - used 99 times, most recently in 2026
• Turn red, maybe - used 30 times, most recently in 2026
• Age - used 29 times, most recently in 2019
• Mature, as fruit - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
• Become ready to harvest - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
• Become edible - used 15 times, most recently in 2025
• Become harvestable - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
• Become ready to eat - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
• Mellow - used 11 times, most recently in 2015
• Get ready to eat? - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
• Turn red, perhaps - used 10 times, most recently in 2023
• Come of age - used 9 times, most recently in 2012
• Mature on the vine - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
• Reach maturity - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Approach perfection - used 7 times, most recently in 2021
• Become edible, as fruit - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• Become ready to pick - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
• Come to fruition - used 6 times, most recently in 2018

Related clues

Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.

• Reach - GETTO, used 57 times
• Standard of perfection - IDEAL, used 49 times
• Model of perfection - IDEAL, used 45 times
• Reach - GETAT, used 35 times
• Reach a consensus - AGREE, used 14 times
• Reach consensus - AGREE, used 14 times

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