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Fellow feeling making them pay, possibly (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

empathy

'fellow feeling' is the definition.
(empathy is a kind of fellow feeling)

'them pay possibly' is the wordplay.
'possibly' indicates an anagram.
'them'+'pay'='thempay'
'thempay' anagrammed gives 'EMPATHY'.

'making' is the link.

(Other definitions for empathy that I've seen before include "Ability to identify mentally with another person" , "Psychological identification" , "Sharing experiences" , "Understanding" , "Shared emotion" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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