The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word AGING , but the solution may also be AGEING which is one of the most recent solution (2025 in LA Times).
Getting on crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| AGING | 45 % | 5 |
| OLD | 33 % | 3 |
| AGEING | 12 % | 6 |
| FARING | 5 % | 6 |
| OLDISH | 2 % | 6 |
| ELDERLY | 2 % | 7 |
Why may AGEING be the right solution?
The answer "AGEING" fits the clue "Getting on" because it means the process of growing older or maturing, which is another way to describe the act of "getting on" in age.
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Getting on
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- get on
- get onto
- going on
- hop on
- get into
- gettering
- get in
- getcha
- going to
- get to
- joining
- jump on
Crossword Answer definitions
AGING verb- To cause to grow old; to impart the characteristics of age to.
- To postpone an action that would extinguish something, as a debt.
- To categorize by age.
- To grow aged; to become old; to show marks of age.
- The process of becoming older or more mature.
- The deliberate process of making something (such as an antique) appear (or, in science fiction, become) older than it is.
- Becoming senescent; accumulating damage to macromolecules, cells, tissues and organs with the passage of time; progressing loss of health, mobility, vibrancy and body functionality, resulting in biological death.
- Wear, wear and tear.
- Becoming elderly.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result AGING
- Getting on
- Maturation
- Growing old
- Getting on in years
- Wine process
- Getting on, like a spinster
- Getting along in years
- Senescence
- Getting ripe
- Like Norma Desmond in "Sunset Boulevard"
More clues leading to the result OLD
- Like Methuselah
- Like the hills?
- Passe
- __ Nick (Satan)
- Hardly a spring chicken
- Immemorial
- Like MacDonald
- On in years
- Out of fashion
- Pre-Columbian
More clues leading to the result AGEING
- Gerontologist's study
- Cheesemaker's concern
- Getting older
- Getting on
- Maturing
- Getting better, as wine: Var.
- Inexorable process
- Inevitability of life
- Unavoidable process
- Maturation process (Var.)
More clues leading to the result FARING
More clues leading to the result OLDISH
- Not so youthful
- Somewhat passé
- Somewhat antiquated
- Not really new
- Not really original
- Not really recent
- Getting up there
- Somewhat aged.
- Getting on.
- Getting on in years.