Hearing Italian on vacation before adventure (7)
I believe the answer is:
inquest
'hearing' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'italian on vacation before adventure' is the wordplay.
'on vacation' means to remove the middle letters.
'before' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'adventure' becomes 'quest' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'italian' with its centre removed is 'in'.
'in'+'quest'='INQUEST'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for inquest that I've seen before include "Post-death investigation" , "Enquiry into an incident" , "Judicial investigation to determine facts about a death" , "Inquiry into the cause of unexpected death" , "hearing" .)