Lewd howl about women’s drawers at the outset (5)
I believe the answer is:
bawdy
'lewd' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'howl about women's drawers at the outset' is the wordplay.
'howl' becomes 'bay' (I've seen this before).
'about' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'at the outset' indicates taking the first letters (the outset is the beginning).
The first letters of 'womens drawers' is 'wd'.
'bay' placed around 'wd' is 'BAWDY'.
(Other definitions for bawdy that I've seen before include "Lewd" , "Humorously obscene" , "Ribald" , "Blue" , "coarse" .)