Pay (up)

The answer

PONY

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the PONY answer page.

Used 15 times across 14 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 8 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.

• ANTE (59 uses in xd)
• REMIT (13 uses in xd)
• SETTLE (10 uses in xd)
• FORKOVER (2 uses in xd)
• ABETISABET (1 uses in xd)

Other clues for PONY

Every other clue in this collection answered by PONY, most used first.

• Small horse - used 74 times, most recently in 2026
• Shetland, for one - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
• Shetland. - used 14 times, most recently in 2019
• Yankee Doodle's mount - used 13 times, most recently in 2023
• Petting zoo animal - used 11 times, most recently in 2023
• Yankee Doodle's ride - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
• Child's impractical birthday wish - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• "My Little ___" - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Pay, with "up" - used 7 times, most recently in 2018
• Small equine - used 7 times, most recently in 2020
• Polo mount - used 6 times, most recently in 2019
• Polo participant - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
• Shot glass - used 6 times, most recently in 2020

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.

• Pay to play - ANTE, used 214 times
• Pay attention to - HEED, used 130 times
• Pay (up) - ANTE, used 59 times
• Hourly pay - WAGE, used 49 times
• "Pay ___ mind" - ITNO, used 45 times
• Pay attention - HEED, used 38 times

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