"___ often costs too much": Emerson Crossword Clue

• With 11-Down and 58-Across, aphorism about the effect of sudden wealth … or a hint to the answers to the starred clues

  New York Times · Thursday, May 22, 2025 · 5 letters

• Green

  New York Times · Thursday, March 13, 2025 · 5 letters

• Legal tender

  New York Times · Sunday, February 23, 2025 · 5 letters

• Real, in Rio

  New York Times · Sunday, October 17, 2021 · 5 letters

• "A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it," according to Ambrose Bierce

  New York Times · Monday, May 6, 2019 · 5 letters

• Time, proverbially

  New York Times · Friday, October 5, 2018 · 5 letters

• $$$

  New York Times · Monday, December 11, 2017 · 5 letters

• "A rich man is nothing but a poor man with ___": W. C. Fields

  New York Times · Saturday, December 9, 2017 · 5 letters

• *Ill-gotten gains

  New York Times · Thursday, June 15, 2017 · 5 letters

• Pounds, for example

  New York Times · Thursday, August 18, 2016 · 5 letters

More clues from this crossword

• 15-Down No-hassle
• 16-Across Fruit drinks
• 16-Down Countless
• 17-Down -
• 18-Down Slips
• 19-Down Holder of merit badges on a scout uniform
• 20-Across Home of the isle of Tortuga
• 22-Across Word before rock or football
• 23-Across Song word repeated after "Que"
• 24-Across Charming sort?
• 25-Down Jon of "Two and a Half Men"
• 26-Across Olympics projectiles