Pays (up)
The crossword clue "Pays (up)" is answered by ANTES, a 5-letter entry. Used 18 times across 16 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1956. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
ANTES
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ANTES answer page.
Used 18 times across 16 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1956. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other answers for this clue
The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.
- FOOTSTHEBILL (1 uses in xd)
- LAYSITONTHELINE (1 uses in xd)
Other clues for ANTES
Every other clue in this collection answered by ANTES, most used first.
- Pays to play - used 71 times, most recently in 2026
- Poker payments - used 53 times, most recently in 2026
- Chips in - used 35 times, most recently in 2025
- Feeds the kitty - used 29 times, most recently in 2026
- Starts the pot - used 27 times, most recently in 2026
- Poker stakes - used 22 times, most recently in 2023
- Chips in chips - used 20 times, most recently in 2021
- Stakes - used 20 times, most recently in 2002
- Stud fees? - used 18 times, most recently in 2022
- Pays to play poker - used 17 times, most recently in 2025
- Pot starters - used 17 times, most recently in 2024
- Poker pot starters - used 16 times, most recently in 2025
- Ponies up - used 16 times, most recently in 2022
- Hand costs - used 15 times, most recently in 2025
- Starts a pot - used 15 times, most recently in 2025
- Pays for a hand - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
- Chips in a chip - used 11 times, most recently in 2020
- Poker-pot fees - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Starts a poker pot - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
- Gets in the game - used 9 times, most recently in 2021
- Poker hand starters - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Feeds the pot - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Poker buy-ins - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Poker entry fees - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Begins the betting - used 7 times, most recently in 2021
- Opening bets - used 7 times, most recently in 2018
- Pot builders - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Starting stakes - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Stud stakes - used 7 times, most recently in 2002
- Initial poker payments - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Poker hand fees - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Starts the poker pot - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
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.
- Pays attention to - HEEDS, used 59 times
- Pays attention - HEEDS, used 18 times
- Pays, as the bill - FOOTS, used 11 times
- Pays a landlord - RENTS, used 10 times
- Pays to use - RENTS, used 9 times
- Pays, as a bill - FOOTS, used 7 times
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