Conservative supports banker, flighty type (6)
I believe the answer is:
falcon
'flighty type' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I don't understand how one could define the other.
'conservative supports banker' is the wordplay.
'conservative' becomes 'con' (I've seen this in other clues).
'supports' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other) (bottom letters provide a support for the top ones).
'banker' becomes 'fal' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'con' put after 'fal' is 'FALCON'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for falcon that I've seen before include "Diving bird of prey" , "Hunting bird, may be peregrine" , "Hunting bird, may be trained" , "high-flyer" , "that's seen flying" .)