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Financial fellows follow me back to the first levee (10)

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embankment

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'levee' is the definition.
(I know that levee can be written as embankment)

'financial fellows follow me back to the' is the wordplay.
'financial' becomes 'bank' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should believe this answer much more).
'fellows' becomes 'men' (fellow can mean a man).
'follow' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'back' is a reversal indicator.
'to the' becomes 't' (the is pronounced as a 't' sound in some dialects).
'me' written backwards gives 'em'.
'bank'+'men'='bankmen'
'bankmen' after 'em' is 'embankmen'.
'embankmen'+'t'='EMBANKMENT'

'first' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for embankment that I've seen before include "Flood wall" , "protection against rising liquidity" , "Mound" , "Riverside wall" , "Needle here" .)

I've seen this clue in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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