Clues for the word "PAY"
We've had 180 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 490 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Daily Cryptic crossword on December 21, 2025.
Definition of pay
- v. t. - To cover, as bottom of a vessel, a seam, a spar, etc., with tar or pitch, or waterproof composition of tallow, resin, etc.; to smear.
- v. t. - To satisfy, or content; specifically, to satisfy (another person) for service rendered, property delivered, etc.; to discharge one's obligation to; to make due return to; to compensate; to remunerate; to recompense; to requite; as, to pay workmen or servants.
- v. t. - Hence, figuratively: To compensate justly; to requite according to merit; to reward; to punish; to retort or retaliate upon.
- v. t. - To discharge, as a debt, demand, or obligation, by giving or doing what is due or required; to deliver the amount or value of to the person to whom it is owing; to discharge a debt by delivering (money owed).
- v. t. - To discharge or fulfill, as a duy; to perform or render duty, as that which has been promised.
- v. t. - To give or offer, without an implied obligation; as, to pay attention; to pay a visit.
- v. i. - To give a recompense; to make payment, requital, or satisfaction; to discharge a debt.
- v. i. - Hence, to make or secure suitable return for expense or trouble; to be remunerative or profitable; to be worth the effort or pains required; as, it will pay to ride; it will pay to wait; politeness always pays.
- n. - Satisfaction; content.
- n. - An equivalent or return for money due, goods purchased, or services performed; salary or wages for work or service; compensation; recompense; payment; hire; as, the pay of a clerk; the pay of a soldier.
Referring Clues
- Yield, as a dividend
- Settle up
- "___ here" (store sign)
- Be worthwhile
- Settle up with
- Fork over
- Wages
- Take care of a bill
- Strike sticking point
- Foot the bill
- Treat
- Salary
- Worker's check
- Reward
- Compensation
- Pony up
- Something to do as you go?
- Take care of the bill
- Cough up the cash
- Be advantageous
- Kind of telephone
- Be worth it
- Give, as a compliment
- Emolument
- Something to do for your sins?
- Cough up
- Shell out
- Settle a debt
- Produce results
- Suffer the consequences
- Take care of the tab
- Pick up the tab
- Handle the bill
- Spring (for)
- Settle, as a bill
- You might do this through the nose?
- Working capital?
- "Crime doesn't ___"
- Envelope's contents, at times
- Remuneration
- Discharge a debt
- Kind of day
- Expend
- Subject of union negotiations
- Weekly stipend, for many
- With 115-Down, make a required contribution
- ___ now
- "Crime doesn't ___"
- Take care of the check
- Prove worthwhile
- Recompense
- What crime doesn't do
- Ante up
- Settle the bill
- Stipend
- Settle accounts
- Worker's compensation
- Remit
- ___ the piper
- Visit the cashier
- Discharge debts
- ___ raise
- Be useful
- Take a swipe, say
- Yield a return
- Settle a bill
- Strike concern
- Weekly stipend, e.g.
- With 133-Across, amounts that rise with raises
- Piper's due
- See 24-Down
- Fork it over
- Bestow upon, as a compliment
- Income
- One way to complete an online purchase
- Cancel a debt
- Kind of TV
- Pick up the check
- Job specification
- Turn out to be worthwhile
- Earnings
- Compensate
- Reimburse
- Remit funds
- Money for work
- Settle the debt
- Eliminate a debt
- Hand over money for something
- Give money for goods
- Give money to a cashier
- What people work for
- Crime does not ___
- ___-per-view
- What crime may do
- Hand over money
- Settle one's account
- "___ with Lovin'" (McDonald's promo of February 2015)
- You might do it dearly
- Nirvana "___ to Play"
- A bit of money for father
- For parking, on some days, you give a fee
- Reimbursement
- In '16 Across', it's about £50
- Party with no right to show a profit
- Stand treat, yet be right out of the party!
- Give coppers, but not all day
- It has its day of enrichment!
- Last of the money given to father?
- Plunk down
- Stub info
- Hazard ___
- Submit to blackmail, say
- Secretary with variable income
- Money's sound in 23
- Wage
- Grab the tab
- Deem worth it
- Like some TVs and toilets
- Rob Peter to ___ Paul
- Use Venmo, say
- Subject of hiring negotiations
- Salary or wage
- Spend
- Yield as a return
- Show a profit on a piece of land from Paisley
- What you do to purchase something
- Foot a bill
- Info in many a help wanted ad
- Give money to personnel all year initially
- Settle a debt with
- A bit of money for dad
- Settle
- Remunerate
- Sensitive figure to ask someone about
- What to work for
- "You'll ___ for this!"
- Money dad gets on the fourth of July
- Hand over dollars
- Equal ___
- A salary or wage
- Be punished (for)
- Close out a bar tab
- Please ___ Here (checkout sign)
- With 53-Across, money transfer app
- Do this when your stuff is rung up
- Give dad less than a penny!
- Give money to
- Word with base or combat
- Union concern
- ___ through the nose
- What to do before taking your groceries home
- Use Cash App, e.g.
- Topic in union negotiations
- Equal ___ for equal work
- With 12-Down, spend much more than a fair price
- You ___ (words before an amount after discount)
- Subject of job offer negotiations
- Word before "a fine" or "a visit"
- It's illegal for employers to prohibit workers from discussing this
- Close a tab
- Pick up the bill
- Topic for a labor union
- Cover the bill
- Job interview subject
- Insert a token, say
- Prove useful
- ___ transparency
- Tap one's phone, perhaps
- Suffer consequences
- In a shop, a year's cash receipts?
- ___ to play
- Worker's earning
- ___-as-you-go
- Last of the money given to father?
- "Cough it up!"
- "___ attention!"
- Close the tab
- Hand over wages
- Do this to make a purchase
- Use Zelle, e.g.
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