Crude lies about unorthodox set beginning to suffer (9)
I believe the answer is:
tasteless
'crude' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'lies about unorthodox set beginning to suffer' is the wordplay.
'lies' becomes 'tales' (tale is a kind of lie).
'about' indicates putting letters inside.
'unorthodox' indicates an anagram.
'beginning to' indicates taking the first letters.
The initial letter of 'suffer' is 's'.
'set' with letters rearranged gives 'ste'.
'tales' placed around 'ste' is 'tasteles'.
'tasteles'+'s'='TASTELESS'
(Other definitions for tasteless that I've seen before include "improper" , "Insipid - inappropriate - dull" , "Vapid" , "Bland; offensive" , "Unseemly" .)