Old ripe bananas with decent chopped nuts getting tasted (11)
I believe the answer is:
experienced
'tasted' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both to do with perception as well as being past participle verbs.
Maybe there's a link between them I don't understand?
'old ripe bananas with decent chopped nuts' is the wordplay.
'old' becomes 'ex' (prefix meaning former or onetime).
'bananas' indicates an anagram (informal term for mad).
'with' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'chopped' means to remove the last letter (the final letter is chopped off).
'nuts' is an anagram indicator (nuts can mean crazy).
'decent' with its final letter taken away is 'decen'.
'ripe' anagrammed gives 'peri'.
'decen' with letters rearranged gives 'enced'.
'ex'+'peri'+'enced'='EXPERIENCED'
'getting' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for experienced that I've seen before include "No novice" , "went through" , "Underwent" , "Practised and knowledgeable" , "Practised, well-versed" .)