Press forward with debts though not genuine (8)
I believe the answer is:
spurious
'not genuine' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'press forward with debts' is the wordplay.
'press forward with' becomes 'spur' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'debts' becomes 'IOUs' (promises to pay debts).
'spur'+'ious'='SPURIOUS'
'though' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for spurious that I've seen before include "Contrived" , "Bogus" , "False, fake" , "Not genuine or authentic" , "Artificial and phoney" .)