Ventured to speak on how water got elevated? (5,2)
I believe the answer is:
piped up
'ventured' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both to do with communicating as well as being past participle verbs.
Maybe there's an association between them I don't understand?
'speak on how water got elevated?' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'elevated?' could be 'up' (raised up) and 'up' is located in the answer.
The remaining letters 'piped' 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).
'to' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Another definition for piped up that I've seen is " began to speak".)