Overbearing bank director replaces top consultant in financial meltdown (5)
I believe the answer is:
brash
'overbearing' is the definition.
Both the definition and answer are adjectives. Maybe you can see a link between them that I don't see?
'bank director replaces top consultant in financial meltdown' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'top' could be 'bra' (I've seen this in another clue) and 'bra' is located in the answer.
The remaining letters 'sh' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't see.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for brash that I've seen before include "Tasteless; rudely confident" , "Foolhardy" , "Annoyingly self-assertive" , "Unable to hear" , "Loud and rude" .)