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• Suffers the consequences
• Treats everyone
• Expiates, with 'for'
• Handles the bill
• Doesn't dine and dash
• Picks up a bill, or hands a bill
• Settles a tab
• & 17 Down Utterly perplexed, news noted as it breaks
• Compensates French country
• Performs penance
• More than apologizes (for)
• Taps a credit card, say