Red-ink items
The crossword clue "Red-ink items" is answered by DEBTS, a 5-letter entry. Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1979. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
DEBTS
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the DEBTS answer page.
Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1979. It appears in 4 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.
- NETLOSSES (1 uses in xd)
Other clues for DEBTS
Every other clue in this collection answered by DEBTS, most used first.
- Obligations - used 34 times, most recently in 2024
- Owed amounts - used 30 times, most recently in 2026
- Financial obligations - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
- Liabilities - used 16 times, most recently in 2023
- Amounts owed - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
- Unpaid bills - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
- They're outstanding - used 11 times, most recently in 2024
- Borrowers' burdens - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- IOUs - used 7 times, most recently in 2010
- Outstanding things - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
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.
- Red as ___ - ABEET, used 107 times
- Red dye - EOSIN, used 79 times
- Barton of the Red Cross - CLARA, used 57 times
- Seeing red - IRATE, used 41 times
- Capital on the Red River - HANOI, used 37 times
- Firefighter Red - ADAIR, used 36 times
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