The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 3 letter word AGE , but the solution may also be MATURE which is one of the most recent solution (2024 in New York Times).
Grow up? crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| AGE | 50 % | 3 |
| MATURE | 18 % | 6 |
| RIPEN | 5 % | 5 |
| MATURATE | 5 % | 8 |
| STOPYOURWHINING | 5 % | 15 |
| ADOLESCE | 5 % | 8 |
| ACTYOURAGE | 5 % | 10 |
| YOURESOJUVENILE | 5 % | 15 |
| ARISE | 5 % | 5 |
Why may MATURE be the right solution?
The answer "MATURE" fits the clue "Grow up" because it means to develop and reach a state of full growth or development, which is synonymous with growing up.
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Grow up?
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- grow
- grow into
- mature
- come of age
- adult
- age up
- grow on
- adolesce
- grow out of
- ripen
- maturate
- act one's age
Crossword Answer definitions
AGE noun- The whole duration of a being, whether animal, plant, or other kind, being alive.
- The number of full years, months, days, hours, etc., that someone, or something, has been alive.
- One of the stages of life.
- The time of life at which some particular power or capacity is understood to become vested.
- A particular period of time in history, as distinguished from others.
- A great period in the history of the Earth.
- A period of one hundred years; a century.
- The people who live during a particular period.
- A generation.
- A long time.
- A unit of geologic time subdividing an epoch into smaller parts.
- The right of the player to the left of the dealer to pass the first round in betting, and then to come in last or stay out; also, the player holding this position; the eldest hand.
- That part of the duration of a being or a thing which is between its beginning and any given time; specifically the size of that part.
- Mature age; especially, the time of life at which one attains full personal rights and capacities.
- An advanced period of life; the latter part of life; the state of being old; eld, seniority.
- 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.
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 AGE
- Beauty preceder?
- Bio bit
- Cause of wrinkles
- Generation
- Get better, as wine
- Get older
- Go gray
- Grow sharper
- Historic period
- Iron or Bronze
More clues leading to the result MATURE
- Ripen
- All grown up
- Sophisticated
- Victor of Hollywood
- Old enough
- With 68A, Winning grownup?
- The "M" in TV-MA
- Like R-rated-film audiences
- Fully developed
- Having little potential for further growth
More clues leading to the result RIPEN
- Mature
- Become ready to pluck
- Turn edible
- Turn red, perhaps
- Age
- Come to fruition
- Mellow
- Turn red on the vine, say
- Get ready for the apple store, perhaps?
- Get ready to eat?
More clues leading to the result MATURATE
More clues leading to the result STOPYOURWHINING
More clues leading to the result ADOLESCE
More clues leading to the result ACTYOURAGE
- "Don't be immature"
- "Stop behaving like a child!"
- "Grow up!"
- Reprimand to a baby
- "Don't be silly!"
- "Don't be such a baby!"