| INDELICATE | Rather rude show capturing the core of Rabelais |
| UVULARLY | In the manner of Rabelais' first letter in Paris, you enunciated vulgarly, without gravity (8) |
| EARTHINESS | "It's rather rude, the way the swastika letter ends. Yours, H. Himmler & co." (10) |
| FARSIGHTED | Shrewd. but was rather rude about a breath of despondency (3-7) |
| QUIZMASTER | Game show host, say, rather rude at first introducing unknown graduates |
| PANTAGRUEL | 'The Life of Gargantua and --', satire by Rabelais (10) |
| STEPSISTER | Naughty priestess capturing the heart of brother's relative (10) |
| GARGANTUAN | Enormous, a word deriving from a work by Francois Rabelais (10) |
| AQUAMARINE | A king lies in state alongside a queen, capturing the heart of our Beryl |
| BLUISH | Show embarrassment about author being rather rude |
| DEMUR | Make objection when men start in rude show |
| LURED | Took decoy when left before rude show |
| TREETOPS | Word, capturing the essence of the upper reaches of forests, for the canopy-forming crowns of aspens, birches, chestnuts, Douglas firs, elms and all other arboreal woody plants (8) |
| ARCHIBALD | Fellow, clever and rather rude, ignored at first (9) |
| ABITOFF | Rather rude sailor on island meeting posh chap |
| UNCALLEDFOR | Stood up on date? That's rather rude |
| BOORISH | Rather rude and uncouth (7) |
| CURT | Brief and rather rude (4) |
| GRANDEUR | Relative, terribly rude, shows splendour |
| SMUTTY | Rather rude (6) |
