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Cheating male ultimately in wild rut with lady (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

adultery

'cheating' is the definition.
(cheating on a partner)

'male ultimately in wild rut with lady' is the wordplay.
'ultimately' indicates one should take the final letters.
'in' indicates putting letters inside.
'wild' is an anagram indicator.
'with' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
The last letter of 'male' is 'e'.
'rut'+'lady'='rutlady'
'rutlady' with letters rearranged gives 'adultry'.
'e' going into 'adultry' is 'ADULTERY'.

(Other definitions for adultery that I've seen before include "Betrayal of a partner" , "Seventh Commandment infraction" , "Extramarital bedroom antics" , "Extramarital sex" , "frowned-on relations" .)

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