Exciting incident as a criminal turned to steal banks from Venice (9)
I believe the answer is:
adventure
'exciting incident' is the definition.
'adventure' can be an answer for 'incident' (thesaurus). I am not sure about the 'exciting' bit.
'a criminal turned to steal banks from venice' is the wordplay.
'criminal' indicates anagramming the letters.
'to steal' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'banks from' says to hollow out the word (remove centre letters) (the edge letters or 'banks' of the word).
'venice' with its middle removed is 've'.
'turned' is an anagram of 'dnture'.
'dnture' placed around 've' is 'dventure'.
'a'+'dventure'='ADVENTURE'
'as' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for adventure that I've seen before include "Hazardous operation" , "that may be exciting" , "Risky or exciting experience" , "speculation" , "risky undertaking" .)