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Settle with, having had a rise (3,2)

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I believe the answer is:

pay up

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'settle' is the definition.
(paying up is a kind of settling)

'having had a rise' is the wordplay.
'having' becomes 'pay' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'had' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'a rise' becomes 'up' (as a noun).
'pay'+'up'='PAY UP'

'with' is the link.

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(Other definitions for pay up that I've seen before include "Discharge a debt" , "Hand over the money" , "Give me the money!" , "Settle" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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