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Satisfy with a couple of pages on moderate (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

appease

'satisfy' is the definition.
(appeasing is a kind of satisfying)

'a couple of pages on moderate' is the wordplay.
'couple of' indicates the doubling of some letters.
'pages' becomes 'p'.
'on' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'moderate' becomes 'ease'.
'p' duplicated is 'pp'.
'a'+'pp'+'ease'='APPEASE'

'with' is the link.

(Other definitions for appease that I've seen before include "Calm, pacify, placate" , "Quiet" , "Placate by making concessions" , "Mollify, placate" , "Mollify by making concession" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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