Off-color Crossword Clue

Other answers seen for this clue

• BAWDY5 letters

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  Appeared in 4 New York Times Crosswords between March 1995 and November 2016.
• LEWD4 letters

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  Appeared in 3 New York Times Crosswords between March 1996 and January 2000.
• RISQUE6 letters

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  Appeared in 2 New York Times Crosswords between August 1998 and December 2005.
• SALTY5 letters

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  Appeared in 2 New York Times Crosswords between April 2003 and February 2005.
• BLUE4 letters

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  Appeared in 2 New York Times Crosswords between February 1999 and October 2002.
• SUGGESTIVE10 letters

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  Appeared in 1 New York Times Crossword: Monday, March 3, 1997.

• R-rated, maybe

  New York Times · Monday, August 31, 2026 · 4 letters

• Titillating

  New York Times · Monday, July 13, 2026 · 4 letters

• Bordering on inappropriate, in a way

  New York Times · Friday, August 1, 2025 · 4 letters

• Risqué

  New York Times · Monday, February 24, 2025 · 4 letters

• Meriting an R rating, maybe

  New York Times · Sunday, November 10, 2024 · 4 letters

• Somewhat R-rated

  New York Times · Monday, June 19, 2023 · 4 letters

• Salacious

  New York Times · Sunday, April 16, 2023 · 4 letters

• Blue-ish

  New York Times · Saturday, September 17, 2022 · 4 letters

• Not G-rated, say

  New York Times · Thursday, September 1, 2022 · 4 letters

• Borderline indecent

  New York Times · Wednesday, January 26, 2022 · 4 letters

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• 3-Down Nora Ephron and Sofia Coppola, for two
• 4-Down The land down under?
• 5-Down Walk-___
• 6-Down Prickly covering of a seed
• 7-Down "___ the only one?"
• 8-Down Beatles title woman
• 9-Down "___ your request ..."
• 10-Down Feature of a classical Greek drama
• 11-Down "You betcha!"
• 12-Across Maker of the X6 and Z4
• 12-Down "The ___ -- is wider than the Sky" (start of an Emily Dickinson poem)
• 13-Down Bit of fill-in-the-blanks fun