Apt rhyme for "rude" Crossword Clue

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Apt rhyme for "rude" Crossword Answer

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(adjective)
1. suggestive of or tending to moral looseness
2. driven by lust; preoccupied with or exhibiting lustful desires

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

RUDE (adjective)
1. socially incorrect in behavior
2. (used especially of commodities) being unprocessed or manufactured using only simple or minimal processes
RHYME (noun)
1. a piece of poetry
2. correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines (especially final sounds)
RHYME (verb)
1. compose rhymes
2. be similar in sound, especially with respect to the last syllable

Hint 3: Anagram

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More NYT Crossword (5/27/2025) Answers

Across

1. Puccini heroine who "lived for art, lived for love"

6. C-shaped shop item

11. One "B" of B&B

14. Like the base-8 number system

15. Thus

16. Tool for Paul Bunyan

17. Like a subsidiary with only one parent

19. One making her entrance into society, in brief

20. Roaring Twenties or Swinging Sixties

21. Glam rocks?

22. Go without food

23. Changes, as factory equipment

25. No. crunchers

27. Swiss and Jarlsberg

32. Duck-hunting hangout

35. Region

36. Before, in poetry

37. Caaaaaaar, you might say

38. Happen

40. Gooey spread

41. DDT banner

42. Part of a foot or a viaduct

43. Showing more false bashfulness

44. Colorful Hindu celebration

48. Unhinged

49. Much mail

53. Couple's first home?

55. Lines of communication?

58. Zoo staffer

59. U.K. : MI6 :: U.S. : ___

60. Central Christian belief … or a phonetic hint to 17-, 27- and 44-Across

62. The H in H.M.S., for much of the 20th century

63. Throw one's hat in the ring

64. Sum

65. Extra periods, in brief

66. Like some desks and divorces

67. Old West transport

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Down

1. Word after bell or cell

2. Earthy pigment

3. Animal with chestnut-and-white fur

4. Food label abbr.

5. Hunky-dory

6. Pick a side, say

8. Last monarch of the House of Stuart

9. "Hand With Reflecting Sphere" artist

10. Xing user

11. Acts that are tough, rebellious and cool, in slang

12. Past partners

13. Red state?

18. Holler

22. Winged species of folklore

24. Heavens

26. Small hailstone size

28. Big boat

29. Grade of wine

30. Lake ___, body of water about 120 miles south of London

31. Crystal Gazer

32. Ick

33. Poet written about in the Books of Tang

34. Tell me!

38. Frozen, black-and-white Nabisco treat

39. Adds to an email

40. Eat quickly, with "down"

42. Home of the Bills and Patriots, for short

43. Helps out a friend, purr-haps?

45. Solar wind particle

46. "Count on me to do my best"

47. Suddenly change course

50. Madonna title role

51. Adjust the price on

52. Strunk & White's "The Elements of ___"

53. Zoom meeting annoyance

54. Fare

56. Mtn. range stats

57. So long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen

60. Line on a skirt

61. "___ on your life!"

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