Paid for cards
The crossword clue "Paid for cards" is answered by ANTED, a 5-letter entry. Used 10 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2010. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
ANTED
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ANTED answer page.
Used 10 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2010. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for ANTED
Every other clue in this collection answered by ANTED, most used first.
- Chipped in - used 55 times, most recently in 2024
- Fed the kitty - used 47 times, most recently in 2024
- Paid to play - used 32 times, most recently in 2026
- Paid (up) - used 25 times, most recently in 2025
- Started a poker pot - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
- Paid for a hand - used 21 times, most recently in 2025
- Started the pot - used 18 times, most recently in 2026
- Paid for a poker hand - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
- Chipped in chips - used 14 times, most recently in 2023
- Fed the pot - used 13 times, most recently in 2020
- Paid to play poker - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
- Started a pot - used 11 times, most recently in 2024
- Chipped in a chip - used 9 times, most recently in 2019
- Put up - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Put in a stake - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
- Tossed in a chip - used 8 times, most recently in 2020
- Added chips to the poker pot - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Got in the game - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
- Paid, with "up" - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
Related clues
Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.
- Free-for-all - MELEE, used 223 times
- Make up (for) - ATONE, used 192 times
- For all to hear - ALOUD, used 121 times
- Fit for a king - REGAL, used 114 times
- Play for time - STALL, used 113 times
- For the birds? - AVIAN, used 103 times
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