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Player who, to resolve a pay dispute, made the issue vanish? (3,4,5,2,7)

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I believe the answer is:

the pied piper of hamelin

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'vanish?' is the definition.
I know nothing about this answer so I cannot judge whether this works.

'player who to resolve a pay dispute made the' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'player' could be 'piper' (piper is a kind of player) and 'piper' is found in the answer.
'a' is present in the answer.
'the' could be 't' (the is pronounced as a 't' sound in some dialects) and 't' is found in the answer.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

'issue' acts as a link.

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(Another definition for the pied piper of hamelin that I've seen is " one who led youths astray".)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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