Answer: ANTES
ANTES is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 216 times.
Referring Clues:
- Pennies, perhaps
 - Chips in?
 - Pot amounts
 - Poker payments
 - Primes the pot
 - Deal prerequisites
 - Individual shares
 - Is in
 - Prepares for a hand
 - See 15-Across
 - Poker stakes
 - Poker starters
 - Pays to play
 - Pennies, maybe
 - Some games require them
 - Pot builders
 - Pot starters
 - Starting stakes
 - See 51-Across
 - Starts a pot
 - Chips in
 - New kitties?
 - Opening bets
 - Before, in Bogotá
 - Stud fees
 - Pays to play poker
 - Payments made before a deal is completed
 - Gets in the game
 - Shows a desire to get in
 - Pays (up)
 - They're usually placed in the middle of the table
 - Chips in chips
 - Pot collection
 - Dealers' requests
 - Starting pay?
 - Start-up costs, of sorts
 - Poker amounts
 - Vegas openings?
 - They're placed in the center of a table
 - Starts the kitty
 - Tosses in a chip
 - Stud stakes
 - Starts the pot
 - Poker bets
 - Forks over, with "up"
 - Starts the poker pot
 - Deserves a hand?
 - Stud fees?
 - They make a kitty grow
 - Chips in a chip
 - Primes the poker pot
 - Kicks into the kitty
 - World Poker Tour contributions
 - Gambler's stakes
 - Pot parts
 - Pot ingredients?
 - Puts one's two cents in?
 - Pot creators
 - Deserves a deal?
 - Kicks in seed money
 - Pot plants?
 - Hold'em fees
 - Pays a stud fee?
 - Poker pot builders
 - Responds to "Are you in?," maybe
 - First chips in the pot
 - Small stakes
 - Gets in on the deal
 - They help the pot grow
 - Puts in the pot
 - First chips in the center
 - First chips in the middle
 - Adds to the kitty
 - Chips, at times
 - Kicks in to the kitty
 - Poker-pot starters
 - Poker-hand starters
 - Poker-pot fees
 - Initial chips
 - First stakes
 - Pays for a hand
 - Puts up
 - Throws in, in a way
 - Pays for poker
 - Pot payments
 - Puts money in the pot
 - Gambling stakes
 - Deal prerequisites, sometimes
 - Places bets
 - Gets the pot going
 - White poker chips, often
 - Deserves a hand
 - Pot fatteners
 - Initial contributions
 - Chips in a chip, e.g.
 - Begins the betting
 - Pre-deal payments
 - Puts in one's chips
 - They make large pots
 - Feeds the kitty
 - Nickel and dime in gaming?
 - Upfront poker payments
 - Poker dealers' requests
 - Sweetens the kitty
 - Some stakes
 - Pennies are small ones
 - Gets in on a deal
 - They'll give you a hand
 - Payments for hands
 - Poker Costs
 - Helps make a pot
 - Puts chips in the pot
 - Pays in advance
 - Pot seeds?
 - Predeal payments
 - Feeds the pot
 - Wagers
 - Throws in a chip
 - Stud starters
 - Minimal pot's makeup
 - Stud starters
 - Poker pot starters
 - First pot chips
 - They go in the pot
 - Ponies up
 - Chips in at the start
 - Hand costs
 - Starts a hand
 - Poker prices
 - Hand preliminaries
 - Adds to the pot
 - Opening stakes
 - Initial stakes
 - Cards' costs
 - Up-front payments
 - Required stakes
 - Poker contributions
 - Puts up, as 10 cents
 - They start 68 Across
 - Opening chips
 - Pot contents
 - Poker hand starters
 - Pre-deal round
 - Builds a pot
 - Enters into a deal?
 - Begins a pot
 - Makes the pot grow
 - Starting chips
 - Kitty starters
 - Playing costs
 - Blind cousins?
 - Pots to play with
 - Gets in the poker game
 - Gets the pot started
 - Deal prices
 - Stakes
 - Starter bets
 - Solicits a hand
 - Starts a poker hand
 - Goes into a pool
 - Chips in a pot
 - Opening poker stakes
 - Places a bet
 - Starts a poker pot
 - Admission fees of a sort
 - Adds to the poker kitty
 - Poker fees
 - They come before deals
 - Joins a poker game
 - Poker pay-ins
 - Money in the middle of a poker table
 - Puts money on the table, say
 - Kitties need them
 - First chips
 - Preliminary payments
 - Potful
 - Asks for a hand?
 - Dealer's requests
 - Gets into the game
 - Poker prepayments
 - Chips before deals
 - Pot throw-ins
 - Initial payments
 - Decides to play
 - Poker hand fees
 - Opening round at a game table
 - Opening chips, at times
 - Poker entry fees
 - Tangible expressions of participation
 - Gets in on a poker hand
 - Pennies, in some games
 - Poker pot pay-ins
 - Chips in for a hand
 - Deal preceders
 - Kicks in
 - Ponies (up)
 - Initial poker payments
 - Gets ready for a poker hand
 - Gets the kitty going
 - Buys in
 - Alternative to blinds
 - Poker buy-ins
 - Initial bets
 - Adds to the poker pot
 - Contents of a pot
 - Starts a fresh pot
 - Poker buy ins
 - Alternatives to blinds
 - Joins a pot
 - They're paid to play
 - Puts money in
 - Payments made at a table
 - Poker offerings
 - Upfront payments
 - Pile of chips, maybe
 - Pays for hand delivery
 
Last Seen In:
- LA Times - November 01, 2025
 - LA Times - August 14, 2025
 - New York Times - June 29, 2025
 - New York Times - June 19, 2025
 - LA Times - April 25, 2025
 - LA Times - April 19, 2025
 - LA Times - March 26, 2025
 - USA Today - March 14, 2025
 - New York Times - March 09, 2025
 - LA Times - January 24, 2025
 - USA Today - December 18, 2024
 - USA Today - December 02, 2024
 - LA Times - November 10, 2024
 - LA Times - October 05, 2024
 - New York Times - April 14, 2024
 - New York Times - April 11, 2024
 - USA Today - January 15, 2024
 - New York Times - December 24, 2023
 - LA Times - December 24, 2023
 - LA Times - December 17, 2023
 
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