Clues for the word "DEBTS"
We've had 138 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 238 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on December 11, 2025.
Referring Clues
- Reason for 55-Down's rebellion
- Chronic gambler's problem
- Lord's Prayer word
- Scores, of a sort
- Scores, in a sense
- Figures shown in red
- Reasons to look for a shark?
- Charger's array
- They must be satisfied
- They're outstanding
- Amounts in red numbers
- Some are outstanding
- Outstanding issues
- What markers may represent
- Bankruptcy causes
- Red ink cause
- Charger's woes
- Loan sharks might break your legs over these
- Items in red
- Insolvency causes
- Financial obligations
- Obligations
- Outstanding things
- Liabilities
- "This note is legal tender for all ___, public and private" (words on U.S. bills)
- Shopaholic's accumulation
- Chits, in effect
- Money owed
- Collection agency concerns
- Possible result of big losses
- Borrower's burdens
- Result of using plastic
- Credit card abuser's problems
- Financial burdens
- Loser's problem, perhaps
- Things that are 36 Down
- Monies owed
- Reasons for 33 Across
- Red ink
- Red-ink entries
- Collector's items
- "Outstanding" things
- Red-ink indications
- IOUs
- Outstanding issues?
- They may come from using plastic
- Spendthrift's comeuppance
- Figures in red
- Some obligations
- Consumer woes
- Gamblers rack them up
- What one with "bills, bills, bills" has
- Borrowers' burdens
- Figures entered in red
- Balance-sheet subtractions
- Collector's items?
- Charger's acquisitions
- You owe them
- "Outstanding" things
- Owed amounts
- Red ink items
- Unpaid bills
- Economy woes
- Credit user's woes
- Funds owed
- They might be consolidated
- Bills to pay
- Credit-card users' problems
- Bankruptcy trustee's forte
- What shy people often have
- Plastic user's concerns
- They need to be paid off
- Things owed
- Car loans
- What i.o.u.'s represent
- They may be outstanding
- Results of getting behind
- Mortgages, e.g.
- Ownership consequences, often
- Credit card bill list
- Markers
- Collectors' items?
- Amounts owed
- Roseanne had many
- Balance sheet data
- Credit card balances
- Things short people have?
- Red-ink items
- Accounts payable
- They can be bad
- They traditionally appear in red ... and in another form in 20-, 32-, 40- and 53-Across
- What IOUs represent
- Dues
- Arrears
- Moneys owed
- "I got ___ that no honest man can pay" (Bruce)
- These pile up for struggling rockers
- Bad ones don't get paid
- Financial matters best managed by the departmental head
- Those paid at last the best way possible?
- Obligations best sorted out at the trading centre
- Financially, many are best settled by arrangement
- Financial liabilities
- Good man goes to bed, overturning obligations
- Balance sheet info
- They might be outstanding
- Gambler's accumulation
- Amounts indicated on IOUs
- Outstanding bills
- Sums owed
- Daughter best sort out what's owing
- Items of interest
- 66-Acrosses to pay
- They're written in red
- Obligations best resolved on December 1st?
- These are signs of them in 13 Across and 6 Down
- Those due to many foolish bets?
- Gamblers' woes
- Red ink list
- What chargers run up
- Entries in red
- Collector's items?
- Are they best sorted out with Danish capital?
- Monetary obligations
- Payments owed
- Borrowers' obligations
- Financial statement items
- Things that need repaying
- Settled things
- Those paid at last the best way possible?
- Obligations best dealt with by the deputy-head
- Credit card charges, essentially
- Bankruptcy cause
- Collector's targets
- Figures on a balance sheet
- What charges produce
- Balance sheet entries
- Net worth negatives
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 11, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - December 02, 2025
- Your Life Choices - November 06, 2025
- Your Life Choices - September 23, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - August 28, 2025
- New York Times - August 19, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - August 09, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - July 22, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - July 11, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - June 26, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - April 13, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - April 06, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - March 26, 2025
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - February 20, 2025
- Your Life Choices - January 17, 2025
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - January 02, 2025
- Your Life Choices - December 20, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - October 07, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - August 25, 2024
- LA Times - July 07, 2024
- LA Times - June 09, 2024
- Your Life Choices - May 28, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - May 23, 2024
- USA Today - April 06, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - March 07, 2024
- LA Times - December 07, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - November 20, 2023
- New York Times - November 04, 2023
- New Zealand Herald - September 26, 2023
- Your Life Choices - September 16, 2023
- And in 208 more crossword puzzles...