Crossword Clue:

with up bent bill

Answer	Crossword Clue
AVOCET	Bird with a bent bill
SETTLING	Paying the bill, with "up"
DEFRAY	Pick up the bill

OWE	Run up a bill
PAYS	Picks up the bill
TREAT	Pick up the bill
GAB	Run up the phone bill
POSTED	Tacked up, as a bill
YAP	Run up the phone bill
SETTLE	Pay up, as a bill
YAK	Run up the phone bill

FOOT	Pick up, as a bill
YAKS	Runs up the phone bill
GAB	Run up a phone bill
USEME	"Till you ... up" (Bill Withers)
ATEIT	Wound up reluctantly footing the bill
VETO	Refuse to pick up the bill?
GAB	Run up the phone bill, perhaps
MAGICTREAT	Bill picked up by cager Johnson?

ONTHEFLOOR	Up for debate, as a bill
USE	Bill Withers "Until you ... me up"
GABS	Runs up a big phone bill, in a way
RIPIT	"... Up" (1956 hit for Little Richard and for Bill Haley)
ROAMS	Runs up a big cell phone bill, in a way