Related Clues:

• Deserved reward
• Sounds like there's no wages for bribe
• Make good on a debt
• Settlement in retribution or reward
• Beam, receiving record recompense
• Punchline
• Theatre production cancelled, losing pounds in profit
• Get out of debt
• Particularly useful or desirable result
• Wages get stopped as the final part of a joke
• D�nouement
• Bribe to produce good results
• Maintain one's credit rating?
• Settle, as a loan
• Compensate swimmer holding on to record