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1ACCWC#497 - ADVENTURE (9)

Total Clues: 16 Total Voters: 23

# Name Clue Points Voters Anno Comments
1 Kalyan Bandyopadhyay Experience or endure a TV broadcast (9) 3418(Endure a TV)*, anagram indicated by broadcast. Def: Experience (ref: Collins)
2 Textrous Experience exotic art venue around the heart of India (9) 2514Def: Experience; anagrind: exotic, the heart of inDia: D => ARTVENUE* around D
3 Satyen Nabar Nude rave parties around Thailand causing excitement (9) 2011(NUDE RAVE)* around T; parties= anag ind, around= cont ind, Thailand= T, defn= excitement - Nice clue, but not sure how ''parties'' works as anagrind
- Won''t Thailand be TH?
4 Amrita Majumdar Coming to an old city close to home is a special experience (9) 189Coming -advent, an old city - UR, close to home- E - Root issue?
5 Arshad Nadamal Recklessly evade turn for a thrilling experience 1611A thrilling experience: definition; evade turn: fodder; recklessly: anagrind
6 Adman_i Exploit commercial enterprise (9) 159Exploit (Definition), Commercial - Ad, Enterprise - venture - Root issue?
7 Ganesh Raman Bold act involving rave dancing with nude model 159Def: BOLD ACT; Anagram of RAVE + NUDE + T; Anagrind - DANCE; WITH as connector for anag fodder - Imo, model = t in anagram fodder is a bit indirect.
8 Abhay Phadnis Newly rejuvenated, Joel regularly went out for thrilling experience 148Anagram ("newly") of REjUVeNATED after dropping J and E ("JoEl regularly went out"); Definition: "thrilling experience"
9 Daughter enters art venue at sea for experiment (9) 127Defintion: Experiment. Anno: (D) in (ART+VENUE*). Daughter – D. At sea – Anagram indicator. Art Venue – Fodder. Enters – Insertion indicator
10 Commercial space certainly lacking a bit of sex and romance (9) 127Def: Romance, AD (Commercial)+ VENT (Space)+ (-s)URE
11 Basically valiant, agrees to endure horrible experience (9) 126Def = experience, anagram of (V A T + ENDURE), horrible is anagrind
12 King, retiring, lets Victor undertake new enterprise (9) 107(UNDERTAKE-K+V)* Nee: anagrind. Def: Enterprise
13 Hazardous untraversed, not primarily reliable scheme (9) 105Anagram (hazardous) of (UNTRAVERSED-R,S)*. Def: &lit - Adventures are not necessarily hazardous
14 Untravelled liberal left going mad for a bit of excitement 85Untravelled = fodder; liberal left going = remove LL; mad = anagram indicator; a bit of excitement = def
15 A doctor turned to rob banks of Viennese enterprise 54A + V(iennes)E (banks
16 Notice, crook never cuts head and tail off to exploit (9) 43defn exploit AD=notice crook anagrind , never +ut -c -s ( head and tail off from cuts)