Clues for the word "SPEND"
We've had 156 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 411 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Penny Dell Daily crossword on October 26, 2025.
Definition of spend
- v. t. - To weigh or lay out; to dispose of; to part with; as, to spend money for clothing.
- v. t. - To bestow; to employ; -- often with on or upon.
- v. t. - To consume; to waste; to squander; to exhaust; as, to spend an estate in gaming or other vices.
- v. t. - To pass, as time; to suffer to pass away; as, to spend a day idly; to spend winter abroad.
- v. t. - To exhaust of force or strength; to waste; to wear away; as, the violence of the waves was spent.
- v. i. - To expend money or any other possession; to consume, use, waste, or part with, anything; as, he who gets easily spends freely.
- v. i. - To waste or wear away; to be consumed; to lose force or strength; to vanish; as, energy spends in the using of it.
- v. i. - To be diffused; to spread.
- v. i. - To break ground; to continue working.
Referring Clues
- Go through
- Lose one's balance?
- Devote, as time
- Go on a buying spree
- Shopaholic's watchword
- Not be frugal
- Opposite of 50-Down
- Pass, as time
- Be the opposite of 4-Down
- Make purchases
- While away
- Pass
- While away, as time
- Disburse
- Go on a certain spree
- Pay out
- Have a hole in one's pocket
- Stimulate the economy
- Shell out
- Throw dough around
- Fork over the cabbage
- Go on a shopping spree
- Shop till you drop
- Emulate a shopaholic
- Fork over
- Feed the economy
- Use up, as money
- Blow, as dough
- Use up
- Drop
- Not save
- Not hoard
- Use the checkbook
- Lay out
- Lighten one's purse
- Go shopping
- Deplete
- Satisfy the store owner
- Save alternative
- Pass bills
- Emulate a high roller
- Support the economy
- Throw money around, so to speak
- Burn plastic?
- Support the economy, in a way
- Play the high roller
- More of the quip
- Put forth
- Exhaust
- Devote
- Use credit cards
- Be prodigal
- Be prodigal
- Blow a few bucks
- Forgo frugality
- Use money
- Be unthrifty
- Use up
- Buy things
- Use legal tender
- Lay out dough
- Shopper's verb
- Satisfy a store owner
- Go through dough
- Use a credit card
- Don't save
- Buy and buy
- Run through 57-Across
- Eschew frugality
- Blow some dough
- Exert, as energy
- Go through money
- Use
- Deplete one's savings
- Throw money around
- Lay out money
- Be profligate, say
- Use plastic?
- Mall-crawl
- Help the economy along
- Run up bills
- Go on a spree
- Save's opposite
- Use up cash
- Employ, as time
- Drop at a shop
- Use dough, in a way
- Occupy, as one's time
- Use up money
- Not be a tightwad
- Fail to be frugal
- Help stimulate the economy
- Lighten one's wallet
- Be a shopaholic
- Act the shopaholic
- Fail to save
- Outlay
- Open one's wallet
- Shell out bucks
- Blow some bucks
- Splurge
- Consume
- Be extravagant
- Use money to buy things
- Use money for purchases
- Pay out money
- Opposite of save
- Dig into one's wallet
- Pay money
- Stones: "Let's ___ the Night Together"
- "Let's ___ the Night Together"
- Bill Withers "I Want to ___ the Night"
- Pay out starting odds before the finish
- Go on a buying spree to pass the time?
- To pass the time, go shopping
- If time is money, treat both similarly
- Part with money
- Make merchants happy
- Put a dent in one's savings
- Part with cash
- Odds and ends singularly unappealing to 15
- Use to drive round Portugal
- Use up change aboard ship
- Pay out odds on final
- Delay us leaving pass
- Pay out at price at start and finish
- What shopaholics do
- Disburse; fork out
- Part with, as pennies
- Fork out
- Pay
- Just a second - hang on! Don't be so miserly!
- Throw cash around
- Deplete one's dollars
- Break in a charge card
- Turn income into outgo
- Use plastic, say
- Go on a buying binge
- Hand over, as cash
- Use up completely
- Don't save, but pass, one's time
- Blow through the budget
- Pass as money
- Blow some cash
- Lighten one's wallet, so to speak
- Reduce one's bills
- Splurge, say
- Drop, as dough
- Blow through an allowance
- "You have to ___ money to make money"
- Use your credit card
- Go on a buying spree to pass the time?
- Hit the mall, say
- Use cash
- "How should we ___ the day?"
- Toss a coin?
Last Seen In
- Penny Dell Daily - October 26, 2025
- New York Times - October 24, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - October 18, 2025
- Daily American - September 26, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 02, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - September 01, 2025
- New York Times - June 10, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - June 04, 2025
- Mirror Daily - May 27, 2025
- Daily American - May 18, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - April 23, 2025
- New York Times - April 20, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - April 03, 2025
- LA Times - February 26, 2025
- Your Life Choices - February 21, 2025
- USA Today - February 02, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - December 22, 2024
- Mirror Daily - November 19, 2024
- Mirror Daily - November 13, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - November 08, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - October 29, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 04, 2024
- USA Today - October 03, 2024
- Penny Dell Sunday - September 29, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - September 21, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - September 04, 2024
- Your Life Choices - August 19, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - July 27, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - July 22, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - July 01, 2024
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