| Given time to ripen | 19 |
| Getting on in life | 18 |
| Full of years | 13 |
| Even-__ (of similar height, as forest trees) | 44 |
| Entered a new decade, say | 25 |
| Ending for school or middle | 27 |
| Dry-___ (like some steak) | 25 |
| Describing some cheeses | 23 |
| Describing nonagenarians | 24 |
| Cured, as tobacco | 17 |
| Creaky, maybe | 13 |
| Brought to mellowness, as cheese or wine | 40 |
| Brought to a desired stage, as wine | 35 |
| Beyond senescence | 17 |
| Became more mellow | 18 |
| Became more mature | 18 |
| Approaching 100 | 15 |
| Antiqued | 8 |
| Allowed to mellow | 17 |
| Adjective for nonagenarians | 27 |
| Adjective for Enos | 18 |
| Adjective for a patriarch | 25 |
| Added candles to the cake, as it were | 37 |
| Accrued some experience | 23 |
| ___ P. in "Great Expectations" | 40 |
| __ beef | 7 |
| In a geriatric fashion | 22 |
| In an old-style way | 19 |
| In a senectuous way | 19 |
| Crooked | 7 |
| Out of kilter | 13 |
| Askew | 5 |
| "A Death in the Family" author | 40 |
| "The African Queen" screenwriter James | 48 |
| Met | 3 |
| Writer James | 12 |
| Pulitzer winner James | 21 |
| "A Death in the Family" author James | 46 |
| Awry | 4 |
| Out of line | 11 |
| Pulitzer Prize novelist: 1958 | 29 |
| "The Morning Watch" author | 36 |
| U.S. author | 11 |
| "The Night of the Hunter" screenwriter | 48 |
| "The African Queen" screenwriter | 42 |
| Author James | 12 |
| "A Death in the Family" writer | 40 |
| Deranged | 8 |
| 1958 Pulitzer winner James | 26 |
| "The African Queen" co-screenwriter | 45 |
| "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men" author James | 53 |
| U.S. writer | 11 |
| U.S. novelist | 13 |
| U. S. writer | 12 |
| Tommie of the Miracle Mets | 26 |
| Screenwriter James | 18 |
| James who wrote "A Death in the Family" | 49 |
| ''The Morning Watch'' author | 44 |
| Film critic James | 17 |
| "Permit Me Voyage" poet | 33 |
| U.S. author: 1909–55 | 27 |
| Pulitzer writer James | 21 |
| Author of "A Death in the Family" | 43 |
| American author | 15 |
| "The Morning Watch" author James | 42 |
| "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men" writer | 47 |
| "A Death in the Family" writer James | 46 |
| "The African Queen" scriptwriter | 42 |
| Pulitzer-winning author James | 29 |
| Pulitzer Prize novelist | 23 |
| Pulitzer author James | 21 |
| 1958 Pulitzer author James | 26 |
| "Permit Me Voyage" author James | 41 |
| "A Death in the Family" novelist | 42 |
| '40s film critic James | 26 |
| ''The Night of the Hunter'' screenwriter | 56 |
| ''A Death in the Family'' novelist James | 56 |
| Pulitzer Prize author: 1958 | 27 |
| Met player | 10 |
| James who wrote "The Morning Watch" | 45 |
| A Death in the Family author | 31 |
| 1966 A.L. Rookie of the Year | 28 |
| "The Morning Watch" writer | 36 |
| "Permit Me Voyage" poet James | 39 |
| "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men" author | 47 |
| 'A Death in the Family' writer | 38 |
| World Series star: 1969 | 23 |
| Tommie of the "Miracle Mets" | 38 |
| Pulitzer-winning writer James | 29 |
| Pulitzer winner for "A Death in the Family" | 53 |
| Posthumous Pulitzer winner of 1958 | 34 |
| Posthumous Pulitzer winner James | 32 |
| James who won a posthumous Pulitzer | 35 |
| Critic James | 12 |
| Author and film critic James | 28 |
| American novelist (1909-1955) | 29 |
| 1958 Pulitzer author | 20 |
| "The Morning Watch" novelist James | 44 |
| "The Morning Watch" novelist | 38 |
| "The African Queen" scriptwriter James | 48 |