Timely (4 letters)

{ Answer }

RIPE

{ Related Clues }

Auspicious
Mature
Mellow
Opportune
Pickable
Pluckable
Ready (for)
Fully prepared (for)
Herrick's "Cherry ___"
Quite ready
Ready for harvest
Ready for picking
Ready for the reaper
Ready for use
Red, as an apple
Yellow, as a banana
Fully red, as a raspberry
Like a yellow banana
No longer green
Strong-smelling, say

{ Tags }

auspicious, be, cherry, clothes, eat, enough, full, fully, green, gym, herrick, mature, mellow, opportune, pickable, picking, plucking, poem, ready, reaping, ripe

{ Notes }

The answer RIPE is seen frequently, appearing about once every 100 puzzles.

{ 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"