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Courageously confront bachelor party, wild (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

brave

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'courageously confront' is the definition.
'brave' can be an answer for 'confront' (thesaurus). I am unsure of the 'courageously' bit.

'bachelor party wild' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'bachelor' could be 'b' (abbreviation e.g. BA=Bachelor of Arts) and 'b' is located in the answer.
'party' could be 'rave' (type of dance party) and 'rave' is present in the answer.
No letters remain.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

Can you help me to learn more?

(Other definitions for brave that I've seen before include "Heroic, valiant" , "Hardy" , "Indian warrior" , "Showing courage" , "Intrepid and fearless" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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