Pound of flesh
The crossword clue "Pound of flesh" is answered by DEBT, a 4-letter entry. Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2017; first recorded in 1999. 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
DEBT
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the DEBT answer page.
Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2017; first recorded in 1999. 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.
- FISTBUMP (1 uses in xd)
Other clues for DEBT
Every other clue in this collection answered by DEBT, most used first.
- Obligation - used 82 times, most recently in 2025
- Money owed - used 63 times, most recently in 2026
- Arrears - used 43 times, most recently in 2026
- Liability - used 33 times, most recently in 2023
- Amount owed - used 27 times, most recently in 2026
- Something owed - used 26 times, most recently in 2026
- Owed amount - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
- Red ink - used 18 times, most recently in 2019
- It's outstanding - used 17 times, most recently in 2025
- Financial obligation - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
- Borrower's burden - used 14 times, most recently in 2024
- Credit card balance, e.g. - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
- National ___ - used 10 times, most recently in 2020
- Outstanding amount - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
- Financial burden - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Bankruptcy cause - used 8 times, most recently in 2015
- I.o.u. - used 8 times, most recently in 1990
- Red-ink entry - used 8 times, most recently in 2013
- Tab - used 8 times, most recently in 2019
- Money you owe - used 7 times, most recently in 2009
- Plastic user's concern - used 7 times, most recently in 2015
- Financial liability - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
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.
- Poet Pound - EZRA, used 239 times
- Pound of poetry - EZRA, used 110 times
- Pound sounds - ARFS, used 50 times
- Pound of verse - EZRA, used 31 times
- Pound sound - WOOF, used 24 times
- Pound of poems - EZRA, used 21 times
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