Crude women defeated in recess? (5)
I believe the answer is:
bawdy
'crude' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'women defeated in recess?' is the wordplay.
'women defeated' becomes 'wd' (this could be a standard abbreviation which I don't know about).
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'recess?' becomes 'bay' (bay is a kind of recess).
'wd' put inside 'bay' is 'BAWDY'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for bawdy that I've seen before include "coarse" , "Blue" , "Humorously obscene" , "Lewd" , "Ribald" .)