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Clue |
1. |
Item in the red
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2. |
N.Y.C. problem
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3. |
I.o.u. cause
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4. |
Loan, e.g.
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5. |
Arrearage
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6. |
One of America's problems
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7. |
Antonio's worry
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8. |
Financial headache
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9. |
U.S.A. problem
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10. |
This may cause vigorish
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11. |
Fiscal concern
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12. |
National U.S. problem
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13. |
National problem
|
14. |
Large U.S. problem
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15. |
Corporate problem
|
16. |
Financial worry
|
17. |
Chapterconcern
|
18. |
Card balance
|
19. |
Result of some sprees
|
20. |
What a marker indicates
|
21. |
You're strapped when you're in it
|
22. |
Corporate woe
|
23. |
Chapterissue
|
24. |
Balance due
|
25. |
It may be something of great interest
|
26. |
Cardholder's problem
|
27. |
Unpaid group of 7-Down
|
28. |
Thing often of interest?
|
29. |
Ower's onus
|
30. |
Silent-letter obligation
|
31. |
Chapter 11 cause
|
32. |
Pound of flesh, e.g.
|
33. |
Item in red
|
34. |
Borrowing burden
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35. |
Outstanding amount
|
36. |
A matter of interest?
|
37. |
It's sought by a collector
|
38. |
Visa balance, for example
|
39. |
Balance on a card, say
|
40. |
It may lead to bankruptcy
|
41. |
Spendthrift's hangover
|
42. |
Student loan, e.g.
|
43. |
Clancy's "___ of Honor"
|
44. |
It could be something of great interest
|
45. |
Obligatory note
|
46. |
You can get it with a credit card
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47. |
Deadbeat's avoidance
|
48. |
Governmental worry
|
49. |
Credit card consequence
|
50. |
Item always in the red
|
51. |
National problem, at times
|
52. |
Binge consequence, maybe
|
53. |
Marker, maybe
|
54. |
Something to seek relief from
|
55. |
Owed money
|
56. |
Charging result
|
57. |
It'll cost you to be in it
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58. |
The red, so to speak
|
59. |
Fiscal cliff concern
|
60. |
It's often acquired with a new house
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61. |
Money you owe
|
62. |
Plastic user's concern
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63. |
Financial burden
|
64. |
Financial millstone
|
65. |
Red condition?
|
66. |
Balancing problem
|
67. |
Outstanding figure
|
68. |
Student loans, e.g.
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69. |
Why Little Dorrit's father is imprisoned
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70. |
Indentured servant's problem
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71. |
Gambler's problem
|
72. |
Suze Orman topic
|
73. |
It's bad when it's outstanding
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74. |
Visa balance, e.g.
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75. |
Net assets deduction
|
76. |
Creditor's concern
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77. |
What IOUs acknowledge
|
78. |
Chapter 11 issue
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79. |
Net worth factor
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80. |
Balance due, e.g.
|
81. |
Unpaid loan, e.g.
|
82. |
It's tough to be in a lot of it
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83. |
Result of a dough shortage?
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84. |
Bankruptcy factor
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85. |
Credit report item
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86. |
Not a good thing to go into
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87. |
Chapter 11 factor
|
88. |
Collector's target
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89. |
Dough shortage consequence
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90. |
Outstanding credit
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91. |
Common borrowing result
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92. |
It's composed of balances
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93. |
Loan application section
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94. |
Many a college graduate's burden
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95. |
Card balance, say
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96. |
National __
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97. |
Financial obligation
|
98. |
Credit-card balance, e.g.
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99. |
What bonds signify
|
100. |
Loan, for instance
|
101. |
What red ink signifies
|
102. |
Bill balance
|
103. |
IOU subject
|
104. |
What a note signifies
|
105. |
Asset's opposite
|
106. |
Red ink
|
107. |
It may be outstanding
|
108. |
Obligation to pay off
|
109. |
What the peddler owes?
|
110. |
What markers may represent
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111. |
Natl. Safe Toys and Gifts Mo.
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112. |
After-dinner request
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113. |
Coffee for bedtime
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114. |
Read a New Book Mo.
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115. |
Certain joe
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116. |
Go bad, as teeth
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117. |
Advent mo.
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118. |
Present time?: Abbr.
|
119. |
Society add-ons
|
120. |
Lender, legally speaking
|
121. |
What shy people often have
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122. |
Kwanzaa time: Abbr.
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123. |
Main mo. in so-called "Oscar season"
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124. |
Tony Blair's period as British P.M., e.g.
|
125. |
Creditor, in financial jargon
|
126. |
One subject to imprisonment, in Dickens's day
|
127. |
From quite a while back
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128. |
World AIDS Day mo.
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129. |
Late-night Starbucks choice
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130. |
Like Oxfords / Sticker
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131. |
Insomniac's order
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132. |
Hold as an opinion
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133. |
'-- Dinah' ('58 hit)
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134. |
Inferior grade
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135. |
1920s-'30s art style
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136. |
Type of "Lite," in early '90s?
|
137. |
That old familiar feeling
|
138. |
Sen. Carper's state: abbr.
|
139. |
Many a Felix Salten character
|
140. |
Blow star
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141. |
Vino vessel
|
142. |
Approximately 3,652 days
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143. |
Busy month for the USPS
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144. |
Mo. for turquoise
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145. |
Owed dough
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146. |
What a credit card holder may rack up
|
147. |
Side of a ledger
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148. |
Reason for an I.O.U.
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149. |
In ___: owing
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150. |
It may be run up at Christmastime
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151. |
What bonds represent
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152. |
Reason for an IOU
|
153. |
Cause of red ink
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154. |
It's owed
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155. |
Economic burden
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156. |
Fiscal shortfall
|
157. |
Insolvency cause
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158. |
$277-billion item
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159. |
I.O.U. matter
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160. |
Something owed
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161. |
Rosa Parks Day mo.
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162. |
10-Down recipient
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163. |
Correct code
|
164. |
Exposes, as a false claim
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165. |
Get off the Greyhound
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166. |
1936 Chemistry Nobelist Peter
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167. |
Mo. of the year
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168. |
Obligation
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169. |
It's outstanding
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170. |
Major U.S. export
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171. |
Arrears
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172. |
___ ceiling
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173. |
College ___
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174. |
Visa charge
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175. |
Borrower's burden
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176. |
Delinquent's problem
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177. |
Money due
|
178. |
Overcharging concern?
|
179. |
It's due on the day of reckoning
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180. |
Thing of interest?
|
181. |
Credit card woe
|
182. |
An obligation
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183. |
Reason for imprisonment, once
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184. |
___ of gratitude
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185. |
Balance sheet item
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186. |
___ of honor
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187. |
Burden
|
188. |
You may get into it while shopping
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189. |
Credit card bills, e.g.
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190. |
Bankruptcy cause
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191. |
Amount owed
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192. |
Credit card balance, e.g.
|
193. |
What shoppers may go into
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194. |
Figure in red
|
195. |
Cardholder's woe
|
196. |
It's not good when it's outstanding
|
197. |
Creation from plastic?
|
198. |
Money owed
|
199. |
Government worry
|
200. |
Corporate concern
|
201. |
Cause for Chapter 11
|
202. |
Credit's opposite
|
203. |
National ___
|
204. |
Charger's acquisition
|
205. |
Chapter 11 concern
|
206. |
Border on (4)
|
207. |
Bewilder (4)
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208. |
Immorality
|
209. |
Liability
|
210. |
The national burden
|
211. |
What's owing
|
212. |
"A prolific mother of folly and of crime " per Benjamin Disraeli
|
213. |
"I.O.U.S.A." subject
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214. |
"Net assets" deduction
|
215. |
"The hole"
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216. |
"___: The First 5 000 Years " David Graeber history of money
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217. |
'90s game show where players competed to "pay off all their bills and go home with nothing!"
|
218. |
1990s Wink Martindale game show that paid off contestants' obligations
|
219. |
2012 campaign issue
|
220. |
99% issue
|
221. |
America exports a ton of it
|
222. |
Amount in an i.o.u.
|
223. |
An IOU implies it
|
224. |
Any credit card balance
|
225. |
Around 6 trillion bucks for the U.S.
|
226. |
Arrears item
|
227. |
Auto loans and credit card balances
|
228. |
Bad thing to run up
|
229. |
Balance due e.g.
|
230. |
Balance on a card say
|
231. |
Balance owed
|
232. |
Balance sheet minus
|
233. |
Balance-sheet item
|
234. |
Bar tab e.g.
|
235. |
Binge consequence maybe
|
236. |
Binge consequence perhaps
|
237. |
Bond e.g.
|
238. |
Bond e.g. for a company
|
239. |
Borrowing consequence
|
240. |
Budgetary concern
|
241. |
Burden for more than forty-four million American students
|
242. |
Card balance say
|
243. |
Cardholder's burden
|
244. |
Cause of bankruptcy
|
245. |
Certain collector's concern
|
246. |
Chapter 11 topic
|
247. |
Chit
|
248. |
Chit subject
|
249. |
Collector's item
|
250. |
Collector's item?
|
251. |
Collectors of it don't typically keep what they collect
|
252. |
College graduate's concern
|
253. |
College student's accumulation
|
254. |
Compulsive gambler's woe often
|
255. |
Concern of a certain ceiling
|
256. |
Consumer pitfall
|
257. |
Credit card abuser's woe
|
258. |
Credit card balance
|
259. |
Credit card balance e.g.
|
260. |
Credit card bills e.g.
|
261. |
Credit card buildup
|
262. |
Credit card figure
|
263. |
Credit card problem
|
264. |
Credit card result
|
265. |
Credit card worry
|
266. |
Credit-card balance e.g.
|
267. |
Credit-card woe
|
268. |
Current national all-time record
|
269. |
Dough you owe
|
270. |
Due
|
271. |
Economic concern
|
272. |
Factor affecting a bond's rating
|
273. |
Financial liability
|
274. |
Fiscal issue
|
275. |
Focus of a current U.S. government crisis
|
276. |
Focus of ongoing U.S. government concern
|
277. |
Gambler's problem often
|
278. |
Gambler's woe
|
279. |
Game show once hosted by Wink Martindale
|
280. |
Good thing to get out of
|
281. |
Graduate's burden
|
282. |
Hole to be dug out of?
|
283. |
I.o.u.
|
284. |
I.o.u. e.g.
|
285. |
IOU
|
286. |
IOU item.
|
287. |
If it's outstanding it's really not good
|
288. |
In ___ (owing money)
|
289. |
Interest-ing topic?
|
290. |
It can put one in a hole?
|
291. |
It definitely costs to be in it
|
292. |
It gets owed fast
|
293. |
It may be assumed
|
294. |
It may be consolidated
|
295. |
It may be crushing
|
296. |
It may be forgiven
|
297. |
It might be consolidated
|
298. |
It might be guaranteed
|
299. |
It might be rescheduled
|
300. |
It needs to be paid off
|
301. |
It's indicated in red
|
302. |
It's nice when it's forgiven
|
303. |
It's not wonderful if it's outstanding
|
304. |
It's often seen in red
|
305. |
It's sometimes forgiven
|
306. |
Kind of ceiling
|
307. |
Kind of crisis
|
308. |
Kind of financing
|
309. |
Ledger listing
|
310. |
Liability.
|
311. |
Loan e.g.
|
312. |
Loan for instance
|
313. |
Major American export
|
314. |
Many a college graduate's woe
|
315. |
Many a student's burden
|
316. |
Many a student's woe
|
317. |
Marker
|
318. |
Marker maybe
|
319. |
Matter of great interest for the United States
|
320. |
Money can wipe it out
|
321. |
Money destroys it
|
322. |
Money owed to record company
|
323. |
Mortgage e.g.
|
324. |
Most everyone's in it nowadays
|
325. |
National ___.
|
326. |
National concern
|
327. |
National figure.
|
328. |
National problem at times
|
329. |
Not an asset
|
330. |
Number in red
|
331. |
Obligation to the company store
|
332. |
Obligation.
|
333. |
Outstanding bill
|
334. |
Overcharging condition?
|
335. |
Overcharging result
|
336. |
Owed amount
|
337. |
Part of a financial statement
|
338. |
Pay-off target
|
339. |
Pileup after digging a hole
|
340. |
Places to gamble: Abbr.
|
341. |
Plastic money
|
342. |
Plastic user's burden
|
343. |
Pound of flesh
|
344. |
Pound of flesh e.g.
|
345. |
Problem for the bottom line
|
346. |
Reason for imprisonment once
|
347. |
Red cents?
|
348. |
Red figure
|
349. |
Red ink amount
|
350. |
Red ink entry
|
351. |
Red ink signifies it
|
352. |
Red ink so to speak
|
353. |
Red item
|
354. |
Red numbers
|
355. |
Red state?
|
356. |
Red-ink entry
|
357. |
Restructuring target
|
358. |
Result of charging
|
359. |
Result of taking credit
|
360. |
Savings obstacle
|
361. |
Score
|
362. |
Sin: Theol.
|
363. |
Sleep ___ (busy student's woe)
|
364. |
Some are up to their ears in this
|
365. |
Something a shopaholic might be in
|
366. |
Something to pay
|
367. |
Something to stay on top of
|
368. |
Student loan e.g.
|
369. |
Student loans e.g.
|
370. |
Student loans for instance
|
371. |
Student woe
|
372. |
Subject of "Bills Bills Bills"
|
373. |
Subject of interest
|
374. |
Subtraction to obtain net worth
|
375. |
Tab
|
376. |
The U.S. has over $20 trillion of it
|
377. |
The ___ ceiling
|
378. |
The national ___.
|
379. |
The Red
|
380. |
The red perhaps
|
381. |
The red so to speak
|
382. |
Thing owed
|
383. |
Thing requiring a payoff
|
384. |
U.S. problem
|
385. |
Unpaid balance
|
386. |
Unpaid bill
|
387. |
Unpaid credit card bills e.g.
|
388. |
Unpaid loan e.g.
|
389. |
Visa balance
|
390. |
Visa balance e.g.
|
391. |
Visa balance for example
|
392. |
Visa concern
|
393. |
What a borrower carries
|
394. |
What an IOU signifies
|
395. |
What bankruptcy discharges
|
396. |
What many college students accrue
|
397. |
What many collegians graduate with
|
398. |
What may grow with interest
|
399. |
What one may be ridden with
|
400. |
What red ink symbolizes
|
401. |
Word after "sleep" or "national"
|
402. |
Word with ceiling or financing
|
403. |
You can pay your way out of it
|
404. |
You may get into it while making purchases
|
405. |
You pay this
|
406. |
___ relief
|
407. |
Fiscal problem
|
408. |
Concomitant of credit
|
409. |
It might be forgiven
|
410. |
If it's outstanding, it's really not good
|
411. |
Old-time jail for deadbeats
|
412. |
IOUs
|
413. |
Plastic products?
|
414. |
With 30 Down work by 20 Across
|
415. |
Mortgage e.g.
|
416. |
They pile up
|
417. |
Expose
|
418. |
Calendar mo.
|
419. |
Clean up, as a computer program
|
420. |
One in the red
|
421. |
Consumer woes
|
422. |
One with charges against him?
|
423. |
New homeowner, probably
|
424. |
Spendthrift's comeuppance
|
425. |
Creditor
|
426. |
One in the hole
|
427. |
Borrowers' burdens
|
428. |
One with obligations
|
429. |
Shopaholic's accumulation
|
430. |
Remove errors from code
|
431. |
It's often paid back
|
432. |
Fixing code
|
433. |
Financially solvent
|
434. |
Mortgages, e.g.
|
435. |
Grounds for a good night's sleep?
|
436. |
L'Enfant Prodigue composer
|
437. |
Universal Human Rights mo.
|
438. |
Numerical prefix
|
439. |
Borrower
|
440. |
Ten, for openers
|
441. |
It's a first
|
442. |
Christmas mo.
|
443. |
Fourth qtr. ender
|
444. |
Fix, as software
|
445. |
Coming-out party
|
446. |
Transfer
|
447. |
Pour, as wine
|
448. |
Ten: Prefix
|
449. |
Canine's woe?
|
450. |
Introduction
|
451. |
Prefix with -hedron
|
452. |
Adroit
|
453. |
Literary oceans
|
454. |
Exploit
|
455. |
Actress Ruby
|
456. |
Furnishings
|
457. |
Billy -- Williams
|
458. |
GPA spoiler
|
459. |
Feat
|
460. |
Opt
|
461. |
Exploits
|
462. |
Lessen
|
463. |
Bing Crosby's record label
|
464. |
Half a score
|
465. |
Morally corrupt
|
466. |
Coming out
|
467. |
End of the yr.
|
468. |
Prefix meaning "ten"
|
469. |
Grand opening
|
470. |
Introduction to the public
|
471. |
Belle of the ball
|
472. |
Cal. page
|
473. |
I.o.u., e.g.
|
474. |
Reason for 55-Down's rebellion
|
475. |
Exposed as false
|
476. |
Holiday mo.
|
477. |
Fix a computer program
|
478. |
Datebook abbr.
|
479. |
Clean up, as code
|
480. |
Bills to pay
|
481. |
This note is legal tender for all ___, public and private (words on U.S. bills)
|
482. |
Make operational, in a way
|
483. |
Show to be false
|
484. |
Chits, in effect
|
485. |
Creditor.
|
486. |
Ten-angled, ten-sided figure.
|
487. |
The national burden.
|
488. |
One under obligation to another.
|
489. |
Red figure.
|
490. |
Obligations.
|
491. |
Forgive us our ___ . . .
|
492. |
Something on the cuff.
|
493. |
___ limit.
|
494. |
Amounts in the red.
|
495. |
Sin, in theology.
|
496. |
Treasury problem.
|
497. |
Owed: Obs.
|
498. |
As we forgive our ___.
|
499. |
Man of notes.
|
500. |
Trespasses.
|
501. |
First appearance.
|
502. |
Make operational: Colloq.
|
503. |
Actor's big day.
|
504. |
Unpaid credit card bills, e.g.
|
505. |
Red ink item
|
506. |
Something on the cuff
|
507. |
___ limit
|
508. |
I O U
|
509. |
Sin, in theology
|
510. |
Sin: Theol
|
511. |
The national ___
|
512. |
IOU item
|
513. |
$-billion item
|
514. |
IOU matter
|
515. |
Credit card balance, say
|
516. |
Sum of money owed to another
|