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Fumed and condemned rude models (10)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

smouldered

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'fumed' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both to do with human feelings as well as being past participle verbs.
Perhaps you can see an association between them that I don't see?

'condemned rude models' is the wordplay.
'condemned' indicates an anagram.
'rude'+'models'='rudemodels'
'rudemodels' with letters rearranged gives 'SMOULDERED'.

'and' acts as a link.

Can you help me to learn more?

(Other definitions for smouldered that I've seen before include "nearly burned" , "slowly burned" , "harboured bad emotions" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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