Annual spring chore, for many Crossword Clue

• Return payments?

  New York Times · Friday, May 29, 2026 · 5 letters

• Takes a toll on

  New York Times · Wednesday, April 17, 2024 · 5 letters

• Wears on

  New York Times · Sunday, March 24, 2024 · 5 letters

• Early springtime woe

  New York Times · Sunday, December 18, 2022 · 5 letters

• What the I.R.S. collects

  New York Times · Monday, December 16, 2019 · 5 letters

• One of Benjamin Franklin's certainties

  New York Times · Monday, December 19, 2016 · 5 letters

• Proverbial certainty

  New York Times · Friday, September 16, 2016 · 5 letters

• Burdens

  New York Times · Saturday, March 7, 2015 · 5 letters

• "What we pay for civilized society," per Oliver Wendell Holmes

  New York Times · Friday, January 9, 2015 · 5 letters

• Campaign issue

  New York Times · Friday, April 25, 2014 · 5 letters

More clues from this crossword

• 21-Across Fabergé egg collector
• 22-Down Was in a sorry state?
• 23-Across Genesis name
• 24-Across Org. with the "Give Kids a Smile" initiative
• 25-Across Like many matches
• 26-Down Golfer's approach, often
• 28-Across "___ Sylphides" (ballet)
• 29-Down People with great head shots?
• 30-Across Super ___
• 31-Across Roman who wrote "Whatever advice you give, be brief"
• 31-Down Subject of the 2009 biography "Stormy Weather"
• 32-Down Sorceress exiled on Aeaea