Job in bank filled by academic playboy? (8)
I believe the answer is:
hedonist
'playboy?' is the definition.
(playboy is a kind of hedonist)
'job in bank filled by academic' is the wordplay.
'job in bank' becomes 'heist' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'filled by' is an insertion indicator.
'academic' becomes 'don' (type of academic - especially at Oxbridge).
'heist' going around 'don' is 'HEDONIST'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for hedonist that I've seen before include "sybarite" , "Extreme pleasure-seeker" , "he puts pleasure before work" , "He believes pleasure is the chief good in life" , "Epicurean" .)