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Notices banker's out of line and arrogant (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

cocksure

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'arrogant' is the definition.
(synonyms)

'notices banker's out' is the wordplay.
'notices' becomes 'cocks' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'banker's' becomes 'Ure's' (River Ure, something with banks).
'out' means to remove the last letter.
'ures' with its last letter removed is 'ure'.
'cocks'+'ure'='COCKSURE'

'of line and' acts as a link.
This may not be correct. Some or all of it may belong to another bit of the clue.

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(Other definitions for cocksure that I've seen before include "Use crock to be confidently certain" , "Annoyingly self-confident" , "Foolishly over-confident" , "Offensively confident" , "Very confident like male fowl" .)

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