Large loan requested by Antony for Noddy's friend (3-4)

'noddy's friend' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'large loan requested by antony' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'large' could be 'big' (synonyms) and 'big' is located in the answer.
The remaining letters 'ears' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't understand.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

'for' acts as a link.