Answer: BAIL
BAIL is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 182 times.
Referring Clues:
- Kind of bond
 - Get-out-of-jail money
 - Release money
 - Keep a leaky boat afloat
 - It may be forfeited
 - Jump (out), as from a plane
 - It may be jumped
 - It may be skipped or jumped
 - It's limited by the Eighth Amendment
 - Throw out water
 - Get-out-of-jail fee
 - Cost of leaving, for some
 - Bondsman's payment
 - Help the boat float
 - Rescue, with "out"
 - Remove, as water from a boat
 - Night court payment
 - Bondsman's security
 - It's set by a judge
 - Judge's determination
 - Cost of freedom?
 - Leave in a hurry, slangily
 - Leap from a plane, with "out"
 - You shouldn't skip it
 - Extricate from a financial predicament, with "out"
 - Abandon a commitment
 - Leave quickly, in slang
 - Way to get out of 1-Down
 - Jump (out)
 - Take off
 - What a judge may grant
 - Cost of leaving
 - Rescue, with ''out''
 - Pre-trial court payment
 - Leave in a hurry
 - Pretrial payment
 - Night-court payment
 - Quit
 - Public defender's request
 - Prevent a sinking
 - One thing to do with a bucket
 - What some people jump
 - Money for release
 - Court security
 - $50, in "Monopoly"
 - Can opener?
 - It may be forfeited or jumped
 - Lift out leakage
 - Some people skip it
 - One may get out on it
 - Empty the bilge
 - It's often posted
 - Price of freedom
 - Court collection
 - Perp's payment
 - Jump from a plane, with "out"
 - What a judge sets
 - Keep the boat afloat
 - Cost to get out of 46-Across
 - Help (out)
 - Defender's concern
 - The price of freedom
 - Leave, slangily
 - Dump water overboard
 - -
 - Fee to get free
 - Criminal charge?
 - What a felon may be free on
 - Judges setting
 - Judges setting
 - ____ bond
 - Prisoner's concern
 - Kind of bondsman
 - It could be jumped
 - It may be posted
 - It may be posted
 - Flee, informally
 - See 36 Across
 - $50, in 'Monopoly'
 - Free money?
 - $50 'Monopoly' payment
 - Leave when things get tough
 - $50, in 'Monop-oly'
 - Get-out-of-jail cost
 - Jump ship, with 'out'
 - Defense attorney's request
 - Money posted in court
 - Bucket handle
 - Court payment
 - Judge's setting
 - Amount set by a judge
 - Use a parachute
 - It maybe posted
 - $50, in Monopoly
 - Something you might be out on
 - Ship water
 - Something it's against the law to jump
 - What some bondsmen offer
 - Leave quickly, so to speak
 - Court setting
 - It's illegal to jump it
 - Bondsmen provide it
 - Eighth Amendment topic
 - $50 Monopoly payment
 - Cash for security
 - Bondsman's concern
 - Get-out-of-jail cash
 - Judge's setting?
 - Bondsman's contribution
 - Trust fund?
 - Bucket in a boat
 - One way to pass water?
 - A bad thing to jump
 - Empty a boat, in a way
 - What some prisoners make
 - Amount to get sprung
 - Abandon
 - Save the canoe
 - Accused's need
 - Cost to get out of jail
 - Absent oneself
 - Something one shouldn't jump
 - Payment that's posted
 - It helps one avoid jail time
 - Rescue from trouble, with "out"
 - Scoop water
 - Try to prevent a sinking
 - Accused's bond
 - Bondsman's offering
 - Something an arrested person tries to "make"
 - Skip out (on)
 - Depart unceremoniously, in slang
 - Accused person's bond
 - Don't jump this
 - Flee, so to speak
 - Leave suddenly, slangily
 - Attend to a leaking boat
 - Totally abandon one's plan
 - It's a crime to skip it
 - Scoop out water
 - Leave quickly, informally
 - Abandon an effort, in slang
 - Scram from danger
 - Try to avert a sinking
 - To load with cargo
 - Try to stay afloat, perhaps
 - It can get you out of a place it rhymes with
 - Leave
 - Cut out early
 - Pretrial court payment
 - Leave abruptly, slangily
 - Cancel your plans, slangily
 - Exit in a hurry
 - ___ reform, cause for the Marshall Project
 - Flake at the last minute
 - Leave early
 - Sailor's emergency container
 - Abandon ship
 - The ___ Project (pretrial support group)
 - Flake out
 - High court figure, at times
 - Leave a party early
 - Suddenly back out
 - Something a person in jail might make
 - Flake out at the last minute
 - Abandon a situation informally
 - Flake, so to speak
 - Flake (on)
 - Back out unexpectedly
 - Dip out suddenly
 - Leave abruptly
 - Abandon one's social plans
 - Flake
 - Skip out of a party
 - Not stick around
 - Target of Illinois' Pretrial Fairness Act
 - Renege (on)
 - Leave folks hanging
 - Bounce suddenly
 - Call off plans abruptly
 - Duck out early
 - Abruptly call off one's plans
 
Last Seen In:
- New York Times - November 03, 2025
 - LA Times - October 05, 2025
 - LA Times - August 09, 2025
 - New York Times - August 02, 2025
 - USA Today - August 01, 2025
 - LA Times - July 19, 2025
 - LA Times - May 31, 2025
 - USA Today - March 12, 2025
 - LA Times - March 02, 2025
 - New York Times - January 21, 2025
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 - New York Times - October 25, 2024
 - New York Times - September 17, 2024
 - LA Times - September 08, 2024
 - USA Today - August 22, 2024
 - New York Times - July 18, 2024
 - LA Times - April 16, 2024
 - New York Times - March 17, 2024
 - USA Today - February 13, 2024
 - New York Times - January 30, 2024
 
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