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Additional payment maybe in currency unit one has (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

incentive

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'additional payment' is the definition.
'incentive' can be an answer for 'payment' (incentive is a kind of payment). I'm not certain of the 'additional' bit.

'in currency unit one has' is the wordplay.
'currency unit' becomes 'cent' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'one has' becomes 'I've' ('one has' can formally or humorously mean 'I have').
'in'+'cent'+'ive'='INCENTIVE'

'maybe' is the link.

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(Other definitions for incentive that I've seen before include "Motivational reward" , "encouragement" , "carrot" , "Stimulus" , "Payment to improve" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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