| Text | Length |
| Let sit, as wine | 16 |
| Kept in a vat, say | 18 |
| Improved, perhaps | 17 |
| Improved, in a way | 18 |
| Improved by time | 16 |
| Home for the ___ | 16 |
| Grew gray, perhaps | 18 |
| Got wrinkled, often | 19 |
| Got wiser, perhaps | 18 |
| Got some seasoning | 18 |
| Got creaky, perhaps | 19 |
| Got a touch of gray | 19 |
| Given time to ripen | 19 |
| Getting on in life | 18 |
| Full of years | 13 |
| Cured, as tobacco | 17 |
| Creaky, maybe | 13 |
| Beyond senescence | 17 |
| Became more mellow | 18 |
| Became more mature | 18 |
| Approaching 100 | 15 |
| Allowed to mellow | 17 |
| Adjective for Enos | 18 |
| In an old-style way | 19 |
| In a senectuous way | 19 |
| Out of kilter | 13 |
| Writer James | 12 |
| Author James | 12 |
| U.S. novelist | 13 |
| U. S. writer | 12 |
| Screenwriter James | 18 |
| Film critic James | 17 |
| American author | 15 |
| Critic James | 12 |
| Writer-critic James | 19 |
| U.S. author-critic | 18 |
| Tommie of the Mets | 18 |
| Scenarist James | 15 |
| Roll of green? | 14 |
| Pulitzer author | 15 |
| Mildly deranged | 15 |
| James or Tommie | 15 |
| Former Met star | 15 |
| Comedian Steve | 14 |
| Author James ___ | 16 |
| Writer James ___ | 16 |
| Writer from Tenn. | 17 |
| U.S. author James | 17 |
| Tommy or James | 14 |
| Tommy of N. L. | 14 |
| Tommy of baseball | 17 |
| Tommie or James | 15 |
| Tommie of baseball | 18 |
| Tommie of the Mets | 19 |
| Slugger Tommie | 14 |
| Pulitzer novelist | 17 |
| Palindromist Jon | 16 |
| Onetime Met Tommie | 18 |
| Novelist James | 14 |
| Notable movie maven | 19 |
| Movie critic James | 18 |
| Miracle Mets star | 17 |
| Miracle Met Tommie | 18 |
| Met outfielder | 14 |
| James or Tommy | 14 |
| James of letters | 16 |
| James of criticism | 18 |
| Awry, in Yorkshire | 18 |
| Askew: Scots | 12 |
| Askew, in Yorkshire | 19 |
| A Met star in 1969 | 18 |
| Tommy and James | 15 |
| James and Tommy | 15 |
| Writer James et al. | 19 |
| Writer James at al. | 19 |
| James and Tommie | 16 |
| Author James et al. | 19 |
| Getting gray | 12 |
| Getting on (Var.) | 17 |
| Inexorable process | 18 |
| Senior snubber | 14 |
| Senior discounter? | 18 |
| Elder hostile? | 14 |
| Elder disrespector | 18 |
| Some discriminators | 19 |
| Unfair employers | 16 |
| Lasting forever | 15 |
| Like some wonders | 17 |
| Like Shangri-la | 15 |
| Forever young | 13 |
| Never outdated | 14 |
| Untouched by time | 17 |
| Like Dorian Gray | 16 |
| Lasting an eternity | 19 |
| Ever-abiding | 12 |
| Eternally young | 15 |
| Interminable | 12 |
| Really drawn-out | 16 |
| Almost eternal | 14 |
| Rocket stage | 12 |
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