Answer: AGED
AGED is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 324 times.
Referring Clues:
- Ripened
- Old-timers, with "the"
- Like good wine
- Like good burgundy
- Like fine wine
- Medicare-eligible, maybe
- Elderly
- Not young
- Let sit
- Like sharp cheese
- Like some cheddar cheese
- Got on
- Middle-___
- Improved, in a way
- Getting on in years
- Mellowed
- Like some ports
- Got gray
- Got older
- Got on in years
- Long in the tooth
- Like wine
- Seasoned
- Like some cheeses
- Like mellower wines
- Old
- Matured
- Like fine cigars
- Sat in a cask
- Like fine wines
- In a bottle for a long time
- Like ripe cheeses
- Got mellower
- Wrinkled, maybe
- Ready to get drunk, perhaps
- Creaky, maybe
- Like centenarians
- Like some cigars
- Getting on in life
- Like relics
- Like sharp cheddar
- Yellowing, maybe
- Past one's prime
- On in years
- Increased one's candle count
- In one's golden years
- Stored in barrels, perhaps
- They're no spring chickens
- Perfected, in the wine cellar
- Kept in the cellar, perhaps
- Musty and fusty
- Added years
- Like good cheddar cheese
- Got more mature
- Like some expensive wines
- Stored to develop aroma, as tobacco
- Suffered from stress, perhaps
- Grew older
- Didn't open a wine bottle for a while
- Around a long time
- Stored, as burgundy
- Ripened, like cheese
- Like extra-sharp cheddar
- Ending for school or middle
- Sat in a wine cellar
- Grew gray, perhaps
- Grew mature
- ___ to perfection
- Like geriatric patients
- Sat around for years waiting to get drunk?
- Far along in life
- Ancient
- Like good bourbon
- Like some wine and cheese
- Up there, so to speak
- Antiquated
- Like most whiskey
- Improved in a wine cellar
- Like mature cheeses
- Mellowed, in a way
- Like much fine wine
- Like quality balsamic vinegar
- Scotch bottle word
- Like much cheese
- Like many cheeses
- Grew mellow, in a way
- Like a fine Bordeaux
- Got grayer, perhaps
- Left in the wine cellar
- Grew mellow
- Brought to maturity
- Let ripen
- Allowed to mellow
- __ beef
- Grew up
- Like prime steak
- Mellowed, as wine
- Dry-___ (like some steak)
- Got better, like cheddar
- Survived years
- Ready to get drunk?
- Well past one's prime
- Like fine cheese
- Weather-beaten
- Made cheddar better
- Like some wines and cheeses
- Matured, like wine
- Matured, as wine
- Up in years
- Ripened, as cheese
- Like wine and cheese
- Like a good Bordeaux
- Left childhood, e.g.
- Past one's prime, perhaps
- Venerable
- Like a fine wine
- Like some wines
- Sat in the wine cellar
- Got wrinkled, often
- Like an octogenarian
- Improved, perhaps
- Matured, as cheese
- Like a good steak
- Allowed to improve, as cheeses
- Became mellow
- Got some seasoning
- Like much wine and cheese
- Got on in life
- Kept in a cellar, perhaps
- Given time to ripen
- Matured, as cheddar
- ___ beef
- Like some cheddar
- Dry-___ (like great steak)
- Brought to a desired stage, as wine
- Like many ports
- Began to pucker, perhaps?
- Kept in a cellar for a long time
- Even-___ (of similar height, as forest trees)
- In the 40s?
- Improved by time
- Turned gray, say
- Like hard cheese
- Added candles to the cake, as it were
- Not a spring chicken
- Like some cheese
- Mature
- Senior
- Getting on
- Archaic
- Improved, as wine
- Improved in the bottle
- Pushing 90, maybe
- Like some beef
- Entered a new decade, say
- Puckered, say
- Like balsamic vinegar
- Like Virginia hams
- Worn
- Made mellow
- Brought to mellowness, as cheese or wine
- Started to pucker up, perhaps?
- Like a prized cabernet, say
- ___ cheddar
- Like one born in 1920, now
- Grew older and wiser
- Word on a bottle of Scotch
- Passed one's prime?
- Advanced in years
- Made it through another day, in a way
- Superannuated
- Very old
- Like some whiskey
- Started to pucker up?
- Like cognac
- Like fine whiskeys
- Like good cheddar
- Brought to desired maturity
- Became more mellow
- Left childhood
- Timeworn
- Got long in the tooth
- Like single-malt scotch
- Got a little older
- Like a good port
- Like sharp Canadian cheddar
- Like cheese or whiskey
- Mellowed, perhaps
- Got wiser, hopefully
- Became more mature
- Made better, as cheddar
- Left in a barrel, perhaps
- Kept in a vat, say
- Like fine port
- Like fine Burgundy
- Kept in the cellar, maybe
- Like supercentenarians
- Like extra sharp cheddar, say
- Kept underground, maybe
- Mellowed, like cheese
- Put in for extra time?
- Became ripe
- Allowed to ripen, as cheddar
- Acquired wisdom, per a saying
- Like this puzzle?
- Well-seasoned
- Got ripe
- Like much cheese and wine
- Got along in years
- Like Gruyère cheese, for 5-12 months
- Like Scotch whisky
- See 40-Across
- Like fine wines and cheeses
- Barrel-___ scotch
- Like fine scotch
- ___ in the wood
- Like good Scotch
- Having packed on the years
- Like much whiskey
- Ripe, as cheese
- Accumulated years
- Got mellow
- Like much brandy
- Went from tween to teen, say
- Gained "life experience"
- See 21-Down
- Like Parmesan cheese
- Like port, usually
- Mellowed, maybe
- Like excellent brandy
- Middle-___ (40-ish)
- Unlike spring chickens?
- Got up there
- Over the hill
- Like quality beef
- Treated like wine
- Like expensive wine
- Grown old
- Kept in barrels, maybe
- Like all Scotch whiskey
- Fossilized
- Piled on the years
- Like the best wines
- With many birthdays
- Cellared, as Sauvignon
- Like much good steak
- Yellowed or grayed, perhaps
- Like Tithonus
- Unlike moonshine, as whiskeys go
- Improved like wine
- Like much Scotch
- Like a centenarian
- Lived day after day
- Stored for improvement, as cheddar
- Like all Scotch whisky
- Stored before selling
- Approached one's golden years
- Like bourbon
- Kept in a wine cellar
- What Benjamin Button did backward
- Like straight bourbon, for a minimum of two years
- Improved, as cheese
- Developed
- Mellowed in a cask
- Like much cheese and steak
- Altered by time
- Like Scotch, for a minimum of three years
- Unlike moonshine, typically
- Like whiskey in barrels
- Refined, like some cheddar
- Like wine, but not grape juice
- Improved in a barrel
- Like Gruyère or Grandpa
- Improved with time, as wine
- Barrel-___ maple syrup
- Like prime steaks
- Like wine and cheese, typically
- Changed by time
- Ripened, say
- Improved, like a cigar
- Barrel-___
- Like expensive cheddar
- Allowed to improve with time
- Left to improve, as in some 80 Down
- Like Parmesan, but not mozzarella
- Like fine balsamic vinegar
- Like Zhenjiang vinegar
- Let develop, in a way
- Like Scotch
- Longevous
- Like many wines and cheeses
- Like some dried meats
- Kept underground, say
- Dry-___ beef
- Spent some time in a cellar, say
- Gray-haired, say
- Like most black vinegars
- Disposal
- Like whiskey and wine
- Like manchego but not paneer
- Like much cheddar
- Like fine wine, but not fine olive oil
- Like some cheddars
- Like most fine wines
- Like some cheeses and wines
- Like the expensive stuff, often
- "Well, that comment ___ like milk"
- Like flavorful beef or cheddar
- Like whiskey
- Kept in a barrel
- Like many fine wines
- Like black vinegar
- Got up there in years
- Developed, in a way
- Like Parmigiano Reggiano
- ___ like milk: looked bad in hindsight
- Like some fancy cheeses and wines
- Became older
- Like fine wine and cheese
- Went from 0 to 60?
- Went from 0 to 60, say
- Like some fine cheeses
- Like some expensive cheese
- Like good balsamic vinegar
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- USA Today - September 04, 2024
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