John, Criminal is illegitimate, not straight. Wouldn't that be enough? I think "blue" works too in the sense of "vulgar" or even "moody", "melancholy"

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And as it appeared in the paper

Try solving one or two daily crosswords Check the answers and parse them Doesn't matter if you don't get any If you do this consistently for a few weeks you will get the hang of it