Clues for the word "SPEND"
We've had 159 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 436 times in crosswords. It was last seen in New Zealand Herald crossword on October 22, 2026.
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?
- Pass, as time doing something
- Shell out cash
- Welcome advice from a financial planner
Last Seen In
- New Zealand Herald - October 22, 2026
- Mirror Daily - October 05, 2026
- Your Life Choices - September 26, 2026
- Mirror Daily - September 19, 2026
- New York Times - September 11, 2026
- New York Times - September 09, 2026
- Mirror Daily - August 24, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - August 19, 2026
- Mindfood Daily - August 15, 2026
- New York Times - August 13, 2026
- Mindfood Daily - July 24, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - July 21, 2026
- Your Life Choices - July 09, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - July 09, 2026
- New Zealand Herald - June 03, 2026
- Mirror Daily - May 25, 2026
- Mirror Daily - May 18, 2026
- Mirror Daily - May 15, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - April 09, 2026
- Mirror Daily - March 31, 2026
- Evening Standard Easy - March 26, 2026
- Mirror Daily - March 25, 2026
- New York Times - February 15, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - February 12, 2026
- New Zealand Herald - February 10, 2026
- 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
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