Answer: PAYS
PAYS is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 73 times.
    - Yields
 
    - Is beneficial
 
    - Is worthwhile
 
    - Performs the traditional male role
 
    - Settles
 
    - Compensates
 
    - Ponies up
 
    - Is advantageous
 
    - Settles up
 
    - Shells out
 
    - Is profitable
 
    - Coughs up, so to speak
 
    - Proves worthwhile
 
    - Foots the bill
 
    - Shells out money
 
    - Settles a debt, with "up"
 
    - Picks up the tab
 
    - Uses a credit card, say
 
    - Bribes, with "off"
 
    - Settles, as a debt
 
    - Is worth it
 
    - Remits
 
    - Grabs the check
 
    - Foots
 
    - Is a sport
 
    - Settles one's debts
 
    - Yields a return
 
    - Settles a debt
 
    - Eliminates debt
 
    - Reduces debt
 
    - Antes up, e.g.
 
    - Settles the bill
 
    - Picks up the check
 
    - Is worth doing
 
    - Forks out
 
    - Forks over the dough
 
    - Settles a debt (with "up")
 
    - Settles accounts
 
    - Proves profitable
 
    - Reimburses
 
    - With 35-Down, joins the club, perhaps
 
    - Forks over
 
    - Makes, as a visit
 
    - Remunerates
 
    - Treats, in a way
 
    - Hands over a check
 
    - Improves one's credit
 
    - Remits funds
 
    - Erases a debt
 
    - Accepts the cost
 
    - Does the trick
 
    - Settles a bill
 
    - Makes good on a debt
 
    - Handles the tab
 
    - Yields a profit
 
    - Settles a tab
 
    - "It ___ to advertise!"
 
    - Will prove profitable
 
    - Eliminates a debt
 
    - Grabs the tab
 
    - Reaps benefits
 
    - Picks up a 20-Across
 
    - Picks up the bill
 
    - Is the target of successful revenge
 
    - Uses Venmo, say
 
    - Hard work ___ off
 
    - Suffers the consequences
 
    - Doesn’t dine and dash
 
    - Picks up a bill, or hands a bill
 
    - Closes out a tab
 
    - Suffers the cost
 
    - Is worth the effort
 
    - "Mind the business that ___ you"