Clues for the word "PAYS"
We've had 93 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 202 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on December 19, 2025.
Referring Clues
- Yields
- Is beneficial
- Is worthwhile
- Performs the traditional male role
- Settles
- Compensates
- Ponies up
- Is advantageous
- Settles up
- Shells out
- Is profitable
- Coughs up, so to speak
- Proves worthwhile
- Foots the bill
- Shells out money
- Settles a debt, with "up"
- Picks up the tab
- Uses a credit card, say
- Bribes, with "off"
- Settles, as a debt
- Is worth it
- Remits
- Grabs the check
- Foots
- Is a sport
- Settles one's debts
- Yields a return
- Settles a debt
- Eliminates debt
- Reduces debt
- Antes up, e.g.
- Settles the bill
- Picks up the check
- Is worth doing
- Forks out
- Forks over the dough
- Settles a debt (with "up")
- Settles accounts
- Proves profitable
- Reimburses
- With 35-Down, joins the club, perhaps
- Forks over
- Makes, as a visit
- Remunerates
- Treats, in a way
- Hands over a check
- Improves one's credit
- Remits funds
- Erases a debt
- Accepts the cost
- Does the trick
- Settles a bill
- Makes good on a debt
- Handles the tab
- Yields a profit
- Settles a tab
- "It ___ to advertise!"
- Will prove profitable
- Eliminates a debt
- Discharges a debt
- Takes the tab
- Awards, like a slot machine
- What record company does for recording sessions
- Brings in petitions Republican's left
- Treats a spy as a mercenary?
- Lays out
- Takes care of the tab
- Uses a debit card, say
- Uses an ATM card, say
- Passes the buck to?
- Settles account
- Foreign country picks up the bill
- Benefits in French country
- Grabs the tab
- Reaps benefits
- Hires a spy, shiftily
- Picks up a 20-Across
- Picks up the bill
- Is the target of successful revenge
- Hires a spy to be devious?
- Hires a spy, possibly
- Settles in a foreign country
- Uses Venmo, say
- Hard work ___ off
- Treats a spy as a mercenary?
- Suffers the consequences
- Treats everyone
- Picks up a bill, or hands a bill
- Hires to detect a spy?
- Closes out a tab
- Suffers the cost
- How one makes a visit to Monsieur's country?
- Is worth the effort
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 19, 2025
- Daily American - October 24, 2025
- New York Times - September 06, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - August 16, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - June 06, 2025
- New York Times - June 01, 2025
- Your Life Choices - May 11, 2025
- Daily American - March 31, 2025
- Mirror Daily - November 24, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - November 18, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - July 10, 2024
- LA Times - July 04, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - April 27, 2024
- USA Today - November 20, 2023
- USA Today - October 26, 2023
- Daily American - October 24, 2023
- Your Life Choices - September 07, 2023
- USA Today - September 06, 2023
- Mindfood Daily - September 01, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - August 16, 2023
- LA Times - July 01, 2023
- Daily American - March 31, 2023
- New Zealand Herald - March 16, 2023
- LA Times - March 01, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - February 24, 2023
- LA Times - February 14, 2023
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - January 10, 2023
- Mirror Daily - August 07, 2022
- Your Life Choices - July 27, 2022
- New Zealand Herald - June 06, 2022
- And in 172 more crossword puzzles...