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He reckons to work in a bank (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

teller

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'he' is the definition.
The answer is a person as well as being a singular noun. This is suggested by the definition.

'reckons to work in a bank' is the wordplay.
'reckons' becomes 'er' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'to' means one lot of letters go next to another (I've seen this in other clues).
'work in a bank' becomes 'tell' (I've seen this before).
'er' after 'tell' is 'TELLER'.

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(Other definitions for teller that I've seen before include "Edward ---, physicist; vote-counter" , "One who instructs" , "One introducing relation" , "one gives relation" , "One records cash" .)

I've seen this clue in The Globe and Mail.
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