Picked up the tab
The crossword clue "Picked up the tab" is answered by PAID, a 4-letter entry. Used 36 times across 17 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 14 publications in the xd corpus.
The answer
PAID
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the PAID answer page.
Used 36 times across 17 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 14 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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- TREATED (24 uses in xd)
Other clues for PAID
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- Invoice stamp - used 31 times, most recently in 2026
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- Away from the wind - ALEE, used 282 times
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