| DISCOURTEOUS | Rude or lacking in politeness (12) |
| RUNOFTHEMILL | Phrase meaning 'ordinary' or 'lacking special aspects' (3,2,3,4) |
| SLYEST | Most wary or lacking in confidence (6) |
| BLATANT | Very obvious or lacking in subtlety (7) |
| UNCLAD | Naked or lacking in covering (6) |
| CHARMLESS | Head of college gentle or lacking in grace? (9) |
| HUMDRUM | Tediously repetitious or lacking in variety (7) |
| OBTUSELY | Insensitively or lacking in perception |
| COARSE | Vulgar or lacking in good taste |
| ONESIDED | Oscar denies adaptation is primarily discriminatory or lacking in balance (3-5) |
| LUSTY | Vigorous or lacking in practice after a change of direction? (5) |
| VOULU | French for "wanted, wished", used to convey the idea of something being calculated, contrived, deliberate, feigned or lacking in spontaneity (5) |
| CLOUDY | Description of a nebulous or gloomy nubiferous sky; traditional lemonade or vintage cider, rustically murky or lacking clarity, as opposed to being clear; or, eyes misted with tears (6) |
| SLOB | From "mud, ooze, sludge", Irish for a mudflat or mire; or, a person regarded as crude, lazy, slovenly or lacking social refinement (4) |
| IGNORANT | Lacking knowledge or lacking manners (8) |
| ACCOST | Stop (someone) in a rude or threatening manner (6) |
| ABRUPTLY | In a rude or curt manner (8) |
| CHEEK | Rude or disrespectful talk or behaviour (5) |
| INCIVILITY | Rude or unsociable speech or behaviour (10) |
| CRASS | Rude ... or, without its first two letters, rude person |
