Historical clue formulations

• Worth a pick? — 2026-09-20
• Ready to eat — 2026-09-16
• Fully matured — 2026-05-05
• Like dark green avocados — 2025-11-16
• Perfect for a salad, say — 2025-11-05
• Ready to be picked — 2025-09-08
• Mature — 2025-06-07
• Like plump peaches, typically — 2025-03-12
• Funky — 2025-02-22
• Ready to eat, as fruit — 2025-01-13
• Like yellow bananas — 2024-12-09
• Ready to eat — 2024-07-24
• Like dark green avocados — 2024-03-25
• Ready, in a way — 2023-12-29
• Red, maybe — 2022-10-21
• Quite stinky — 2022-09-09
• Primed (for) — 2021-11-12
• Yellow, as a banana — 2021-09-08
• Ready — 2021-07-24
• What comes before old age? — 2021-02-27
• Ready for picking — 2020-12-28
• Completely ready — 2020-05-16
• As good as it's going to get? — 2020-02-13
• Ready for picking — 2019-10-28
• No longer green, say — 2019-10-06
• Smelly — 2019-01-13
• Red, perhaps — 2018-12-26
• Like thumped watermelons making a deep sound — 2018-12-17
• Opportune — 2018-07-27
• Mature — 2018-07-22
• Ready ... or red, maybe — 2018-03-25
• Having sat in the locker room way too long — 2017-12-21
• Ready (for) — 2017-10-13
• Well positioned (for) — 2017-03-22
• Stinky — 2017-03-05
• Like yellow 17-Acrosses — 2016-11-16
• Ready — 2016-07-30
• Ready for picking — 2016-04-11
• Opportune — 2015-12-19
• Smelly — 2015-02-22
• Pickable — 2014-12-24
• Offensive-smelling — 2014-10-07
• Ready (for) — 2013-08-11
• Strong-smelling, say — 2013-03-29
• Finally edible — 2012-01-22
• Yellow, as a banana — 2011-10-31
• Smelly — 2011-09-11
• Sufficiently aged — 2011-08-28
• Stinky — 2011-07-09
• Opportune — 2011-03-10