| Text | Length |
| Past one's prime | 20 |
| Like some cigars | 16 |
| Brought to maturity | 19 |
| ___ in the wood | 15 |
| Up in years | 11 |
| Got on in life | 14 |
| Got older | 9 |
| Got mellower | 12 |
| Like some ports | 15 |
| Like good bourbon | 17 |
| Increased one's candle count | 32 |
| Getting up there | 16 |
| ___ to perfection | 17 |
| Well past one's prime | 25 |
| Sat in a cask | 13 |
| Made cheddar better | 19 |
| Like some whiskey | 17 |
| Like much wine and cheese | 25 |
| Like mellower wines | 19 |
| Like good burgundy | 18 |
| Like fine cheese | 16 |
| Like balsamic vinegar | 21 |
| ___ P., Dickens character | 25 |
| Weather-beaten | 14 |
| Sat around for years waiting to get drunk? | 42 |
| Like Virginia hams | 18 |
| Like much fine wine | 19 |
| Like many cheeses | 17 |
| Like high-quality wine or cheese | 32 |
| Like centenarians | 17 |
| Grew older and wiser | 20 |
| Got old | 7 |
| Around a long time | 18 |
| Added years | 11 |
| ___ P, Dickens character | 24 |
| Senescent | 9 |
| Past one's prime, perhaps | 29 |
| Middle-___ | 10 |
| Matured, like wine | 18 |
| Like sharp cheese | 17 |
| Like ripe cheeses | 17 |
| Like good wine | 14 |
| Like good cheese | 16 |
| Like Enos | 9 |
| Let sit | 7 |
| Grew up | 7 |
| Grew mellow, in a way | 21 |
| Grew mature | 11 |
| Got more mature | 15 |
| Got gray | 8 |
| Far along in life | 17 |
| Became mellow | 13 |
| Allowed to improve, as cheeses | 30 |
| Worse for wear | 14 |
| Well-seasoned | 13 |
| Turned gray | 11 |
| Started to pucker up? | 21 |
| Sat in a wine cellar | 20 |
| Ripened, as cheese | 18 |
| Passed one's prime? | 23 |
| Matured, as wine | 16 |
| Matured, as cheese | 18 |
| Long-lived | 10 |
| Like wine and cheese | 20 |
| Like wine | 9 |
| Like Tithonus | 13 |
| Like some wines and cheeses | 27 |
| Like some wine and cheese | 25 |
| Like some cheddars | 18 |
| Like sharp cheddar | 18 |
| Like one born in 1920, now | 26 |
| Like much cheese | 16 |
| Like many ports | 15 |
| Like cognac | 11 |
| Like an octogenarian | 20 |
| Like a patriarch | 16 |
| Like a good Bordeaux | 20 |
| Left in the wine cellar | 23 |
| Left childhood, e.g. | 20 |
| Left childhood | 14 |
| Grown old | 9 |
| Grew older | 10 |
| Got ripe | 8 |
| Got grayer, perhaps | 19 |
| Got a little older | 18 |
| Geriatrician's patients | 27 |
| Fossilized | 10 |
| Dry-___ (like great steak) | 26 |
| Brought to desired maturity | 27 |
| Yellowing, maybe | 16 |
| Wrinkled, maybe | 15 |
| Word on a brandy bottle | 23 |
| Word on a bottle of Scotch | 26 |
| Word for some whisky | 20 |
| What old rocker looks | 21 |
| Well along in years | 19 |
| Well along | 10 |
| Well advanced | 13 |
| Weather worn | 12 |
| Venerable, in a way | 19 |
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