Be obligated to
The crossword clue "Be obligated to" is answered by OWE, a 3-letter entry. Used 23 times across 15 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1966. It appears in 12 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself.
The answer
OWE
3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the OWE answer page.
Used 23 times across 15 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1966. It appears in 12 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for OWE
Every other clue in this collection answered by OWE, most used first.
- Have debts - used 217 times, most recently in 2026
- Have bills - used 165 times, most recently in 2026
- Be in debt - used 146 times, most recently in 2026
- Be in the red - used 135 times, most recently in 2026
- Need to pay - used 82 times, most recently in 2026
- Be indebted to - used 81 times, most recently in 2025
- Be in arrears - used 65 times, most recently in 2026
- Be beholden to - used 62 times, most recently in 2026
- Be behind - used 56 times, most recently in 2026
- "I ___ you one" - used 53 times, most recently in 2026
- Need to repay - used 42 times, most recently in 2026
- See red? - used 39 times, most recently in 2024
- Have bills to pay - used 37 times, most recently in 2026
- Carry a balance - used 36 times, most recently in 2026
- Be shy - used 35 times, most recently in 2026
- Be in debt to - used 33 times, most recently in 2026
- Be short - used 33 times, most recently in 2025
- Have a tab - used 32 times, most recently in 2024
- Part of IOU - used 32 times, most recently in 2025
- Be indebted - used 30 times, most recently in 2026
- Come up short - used 30 times, most recently in 2025
- Be in the hole - used 29 times, most recently in 2025
- Be in hock - used 22 times, most recently in 2020
- Have unpaid bills - used 22 times, most recently in 2024
- Run up a tab - used 22 times, most recently in 2021
- Get behind - used 21 times, most recently in 2026
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- Sphere - ORB, used 498 times
- Poem of praise - ODE, used 492 times
- Choose - OPT, used 490 times
- Make a choice - OPT, used 399 times
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