Related Clues:

• Illegal cash incentive
• Offer hush money to
• Sweetener, so to speak
• Opposite of a speaking fee?
• Bung a bit of bacon in soft cheese
• Bung kid stuck in empty bottle
• Payment for political favors
• Bribe paid to ensure silence
• Cash inducement
• French cheese injected with British sweetener
• Financial inducement
• Corrupt offer
• Corrupt kickback
• The cost of quiet, say (In this answer, note letters 1 and 6-9)