Bank broken by woman without thinking (8)
I believe the answer is:
remissly
'without thinking' is the definition.
Both the definition and answer are adverbs.
Maybe you can see a link between them that I don't see?
'bank broken by woman' is the wordplay.
'bank' becomes 'rely' (to bank on is to rely on).
'broken by' indicates putting letters inside.
'woman' becomes 'miss' (miss is a kind of woman).
'rely' going around 'miss' is 'REMISSLY'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Another definition for remissly that I've seen is " with slipshod attitude".)