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Spiralling banking charge resident incurs now (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

currently

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'now' is the definition.
(I've seen this in another clue)

'spiralling banking charge' is the wordplay.
'spiralling' becomes 'curly' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'banking' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'charge' becomes 'rent' (I've seen this in other clues).
'curly' enclosing 'rent' is 'CURRENTLY'.

'resident incurs' is the link.
This may not be right. Some or all of it may be part of another bit of the clue.

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(Another definition for currently that I've seen is " At the present time".)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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