The Clue
Painting not for the demure (4 letter answer)
The Answer
NUDE
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Notes
The answer NUDE is seen frequently, appearing about once every 140 puzzles.
Related Clues
Bare
In the buff
Garbless
Naked
In the raw
On a streak?
"The Thinker," for one
Unclothed
Uncovered
Undraped
Art subject
Au naturel
Certain painting
"___ Descending a Staircase"
Fully exposed
Goya's Maja is one
Hosiery shade
Modigliani's "The Rose ___"
Museum painting
Painter's subject
Sky-clad
Subject for Goya
"___ With Violin": Coward
Art class figure
Art class model
Botticelli's Venus, e.g.
Classic art subject
Duchamp's "___ Descending a Staircase"
Duchamp's staircase-descender
Dufy's "___ with Raised Arms"
Like Botticelli's Venus
Like a Goya maja
Like some sunbathers
Manet's "Olympia," e.g.
Many a Rubens subject
Marcel Duchamp subject
Michelangelo's David, e.g.
Not having a stitch on
Panty-hose shade
Revealing work of art?
Like Michelangelo's "David" or Rodin's "The Thinker"
Definition
NUDE as a noun:
1. (nude, nude painting) = a painting of a naked human figure
2. without clothing (especially in the phrase `in the nude'); "they swam in the nude"
3. (nude, nude person) = a naked person
4. (nude, nude sculpture, nude statue) = a statue of a naked human figure
NUDE as an adjective:
1. (bare, au naturel, naked, nude) = completely unclothed; "bare bodies"; "naked from the waist up"; "a nude model"