| Like many old gym socks | 23 |
| Like a black blackberry | 23 |
| Good enough to eat, in a way | 28 |
| Fully red, as a raspberry | 25 |
| Between green and black, say | 28 |
| Band ready for the big time | 27 |
| An adjective for old age | 24 |
| Become edible, in a way | 23 |
| Get ready to be picked | 22 |
| Become ready to harvest | 23 |
| Yellow or redden, perhaps | 25 |
| Go from green to red, often | 27 |
| What raw talent needs to do | 27 |
| What flourishing careers do | 27 |
| What burgeoning careers do | 26 |
| Turn yellow, as a banana | 24 |
| Turn red, in some cases | 23 |
| Turn red, as a strawberry | 25 |
| Turn red in some cases | 23 |
| Turn from green to red | 22 |
| React to mold, perhaps | 22 |
| Go from green to red, say | 25 |
| Go from green to red, perhaps | 29 |
| Approach harvestability | 23 |
| Changed from green to red | 25 |
| Reached the plucking point | 26 |
| Improved through aging | 22 |
| Ethylene, in agriculture | 24 |
| Ethylene gas, agriculturally | 28 |
| Nears the harvesting stage | 26 |
| Becomes ready to harvest | 24 |
| Becomes ready for plucking | 26 |
| Closer to being harvested | 25 |
| At the peak of maturity | 23 |
| Most ready for picking | 22 |
| Most ready for plucking | 23 |
| At the peak of development | 26 |
| At the highest development | 26 |
| Dweller along Lake Volta | 24 |
| Criticize without mercy | 23 |
| Collector of bizarre facts | 26 |
| "Alien" heroine | 25 |
| You could believe him, or not | 29 |
| Wisconsin college town | 22 |
| Wisconsin college or its city | 29 |
| Wisconsin college or town | 25 |
| Wisconsin college or its town | 29 |
| Republican Party birthplace | 27 |
| Harass and insult, slangily | 27 |
| College or city in Wisconsin | 28 |
| City and college in Wis. | 24 |
| Tear into, as packaging | 23 |
| Insult follower, perhaps | 24 |
| Dorothy Parker delivery | 23 |
| Extricate with abandon | 22 |
| Detach, as a book page | 22 |
| Stole, with "off" | 27 |
| Ready for the rag pile, maybe | 29 |
| Muscular-looking, in slang | 26 |
| Foundation of broken stones | 27 |
| Rock used to slow erosion | 25 |
| Opens, as a sugar packet | 24 |
| Features of some jeans | 22 |
| Well-worn jeans may have some | 29 |
| They may be put in stitches | 27 |
| Stretches of rough water | 24 |
| Steals, with "off" | 28 |
| Shows off guitar prowess | 24 |
| Criticizes, so to speak | 23 |
| Carpenter's cutter | 22 |
| It cuts wood along the grain | 28 |
| It cuts with the grain | 22 |
| Tool with coarse teeth | 22 |
| It goes with the grain | 22 |
| Cutter along the grain | 22 |
| Cut wood with the grain | 23 |
| Carpenter's hand tool | 25 |
| With-the-grain cutters | 22 |
| They cut wood with the grain | 28 |
| Turbulent ocean phenomenon | 26 |
| Dangerous swimming condition | 28 |
| Concern for a lifeguard | 23 |
| "Men in Black" star | 29 |
| Destroy, as a contract | 22 |
| _____ de veau (sweetbread) | 26 |
| ___ de veau (sweetbread) | 24 |
| Sweetbread, at Maxim's | 26 |
| "___ for Ricochet" | 28 |
| "___ for rainbow" | 27 |
| "__ for Ricochet" | 27 |
| ___ de veau (sweetbreads) | 25 |
| ___ d'agneau (lamb dish) | 28 |
| Waist-to-crotch measure | 23 |
| Part of a courtroom shout | 25 |
| Kiss: "___ To It" | 27 |
| Command in a levitation act | 27 |
| Bailiff's instruction | 25 |
| What temperatures may do | 24 |
| What dough does when baked | 26 |
| Show respect to a judge | 23 |