Picked up the check
The crossword clue "Picked up the check" is answered by PAID, a 4-letter entry. Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2025. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
PAID
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the PAID answer page.
Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2025. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other answers for this clue
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Other clues for PAID
Every other clue in this collection answered by PAID, most used first.
- Picked up the tab - used 36 times, most recently in 2026
- Invoice stamp - used 31 times, most recently in 2026
- Settled up - used 26 times, most recently in 2024
- Bill stamp - used 21 times, most recently in 2026
- Settled a debt - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
- Settled the bill - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
- Compensated - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
- Forked over - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
- Receipt stamp - used 13 times, most recently in 2022
- Settled - used 13 times, most recently in 2024
- Settled a bill - used 11 times, most recently in 2024
- Remunerated - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
- Rendered, as a compliment - used 8 times, most recently in 2013
- Not outstanding - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Footed the bill - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- No longer due - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
- Word on a receipt - used 6 times, most recently in 2011
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.
- Up to the task - ABLE, used 397 times
- In the thick of - AMID, used 377 times
- On the briny - ASEA, used 364 times
- From the top - ANEW, used 355 times
- Spill the beans - BLAB, used 313 times
- Away from the wind - ALEE, used 282 times
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