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The Clue
Be light, in poker (3 letter answer)
The Answer
OWE
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Notes
The answer OWE is seen frequently, appearing about once every 80 puzzles.
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Be beholden to
Be in debt
Be in debt to
Be in a hole
Be indebted
Be indebted to
Be in the red
Be short
Get behind
Have bills
Have a debt
Have debts
"I ___ you one"
Loan word
Need dough
Part of I.O.U.
Run a tab
See red?
Take credit?
Come up short
End up short
Have bills due
Have chits out
Have a marker out
Have markers out
Have yet to settle
Leave bills unpaid
Really should give
Run up bills
Run up a tab
"To what do I ___..."
Not be entirely independent
What unsettled people do?
Definition
OWE as a verb:
1. be obliged to pay or repay
2. be indebted to, in an abstract or intellectual sense; "This new theory owes much to Einstein's Relativity Theory"
3. be in debt; "She owes me $200"; "The thesis owes much to his adviser"