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He's slow to pay for faultless service on the motorway (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

miser

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'he's slow to pay' is the definition.
The answer is a person as well as being a singular noun. This is suggested by the definition.

'faultless service on the motorway' is the wordplay.
'faultless service' becomes 'ser' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'on' says to put letters next to each other.
'the motorway' becomes 'MI' (resembles Ms, English motorway).
'ser' put after 'mi' is 'MISER'.

'for' is the link.

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(Other definitions for miser that I've seen before include "Penny-pincher" , "Money-grubber" , "Niggardly person" , "Stingy hoarder" , "One sparing with money" .)

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