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Increasingly hare-brained acts crippled bank (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

scattier

'increasingly hare-brained' is the definition.
(hare-brained means scatty or silly)

'acts crippled bank' is the wordplay.
'crippled' indicates anagramming the letters.
'bank' becomes 'tier' (both can mean a row of similar things).
'acts' anagrammed gives 'scat'.
'scat'+'tier'='SCATTIER'

(Another definition for scattier that I've seen is " More absentminded".)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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