Answer: PAYS
PAYS is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 73 times.
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
 - Grabs the tab
 - Reaps benefits
 - Picks up a 20-Across
 - Picks up the bill
 - Is the target of successful revenge
 - Uses Venmo, say
 - Hard work ___ off
 - Suffers the consequences
 - Doesn’t dine and dash
 - Picks up a bill, or hands a bill
 - Closes out a tab
 - Suffers the cost
 - Is worth the effort
 - "Mind the business that ___ you"
 
Last Seen In:
- USA Today - October 27, 2025
 - New York Times - September 06, 2025
 - New York Times - June 01, 2025
 - LA Times - July 04, 2024
 - USA Today - November 20, 2023
 - USA Today - October 26, 2023
 - USA Today - September 06, 2023
 - LA Times - July 01, 2023
 - LA Times - March 01, 2023
 - LA Times - February 14, 2023
 - LA Times - July 06, 2022
 - LA Times - January 22, 2022
 - LA Times - September 14, 2021
 - LA Times - June 29, 2021
 - LA Times - June 24, 2021
 - USA Today - May 13, 2021
 - Universal - May 08, 2021
 - Universal - April 17, 2021
 - LA Times - February 22, 2021
 - New York Times - February 09, 2021
 
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