Person of wide culture avoiding con in survey by crew (11,3)
I believe the answer is:
renaissance man
'person' is the definition.
(Renaissance man is an example)
'wide culture avoiding con in survey by crew' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'crew' could be 'man' (both can mean to staff or operate something) and 'man' is located in the answer.
The remaining letters 'renaissance' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't understand.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
'of' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for renaissance man that I've seen before include "Wide-ranging intellectual" , "Person with many talents or interests" , "Catholic intellectual" , "All-rounder" .)