She'll be right

Crambo's potentially phobia-inducing word rhymes with "mate". And, to avoid difficulties, "mate" is a single syllable word, not the South American tea!

A jacket created by French designer Guilleret?

#2 I'll be forthright - its not Une camisole de force!

Not: straight

Alpha not: straight

Presuming that Crambo might be Australian with his choice of mate, might his phobia be acro-and his word denote tallness?

#4 Crambo isn't talking strine, and isn't afraid of heights.

Not: straight, height

Alpha not: height, straight

Crambo's word has three syllables.

"to OBstruct the WAY (+ suff-
-ix)" is the literal meaning of its Latin source:: Rough-
-ness and difficulty are implied: the pre-
-fix has preceded adjectives like "-nox- (see?)
-ious" and "-durate" . So, is the winner me?

Very well-fed Westerners

No amount of tax-cuts would satisfy
or __ __ __ __ (#7) "That is my
Right, and nothing more!" they would
Say, "If you must regulate -- what good
Are these Liberals exercising what they call
Free speech? Get rid of most or all
Of THEM, and youʻd be doing some regulate-
Ing! And stop asking us to __ __ __ __
Your unquenchable greed for revenue!
(and by the way, what do you DO
With all OUR money --spend it on migratory
Arrivals?) Donʻt __ __ __ __ --to end my story-- ,
or even satisfy that foreign crowd!
Satisfy US, and tell them ʻYouʻre not allowed!ʻ "

A verb that describes Rolandperkins' ability to make sensible decisions

#6 Alas, poor Roland, the state that might
cause this Crambo to quiver in fright
although obscure, is not of blockedness
or even of doggedness, or darkness.

#7, #8 I sense that these two suggestions are
the same word, although I'm known to err.
I'll allocate you the same fate
Crambo's word is not satiate.

#9 There are many requirements that support the ability to discriminate, including being moderate and temperate, neither of which are to be feared.

Not: straight, height, obturate, obdurate, obfuscate, satiate, discriminate, moderate, temperate

Alpha not: discriminate, height, moderate, obdurate, obfuscate, obturate, satiate, straight, temperate

Crambo's word is not the name of a specific phobia, to the best of my knowledge.

"Satiate" (10 on 7-8) practically was my word --except that mine was minus an"... i-a-t ...", and was just "sate". I had forgotten that I shoud be guessing a tri-syllable. (5)
I didnʻt at first get what the guess in 9 is ("discriminate"?), but the speaker of 8 was intended to be "decisive" maybe--but not "sensible".

This nine-letter verb would entail
Other verbs, not a mate who needs bail;
But I am (and you are,
And it is) not too far
From a word for some visits to jail.

//How is it possible that we've never done a limerick round? Just tossing that idea out there for anyone who wants to run with it as a future theme.//

". . . we've never done a limerick round. . ." (12)

I'm good at writing "bad" Ogden Nash, but terrible at
limericks. Still, not a bad idea.

This Crambo would give it a try,
to respond with replies on the fly.
To be criminate,
a sad reprobate
This dutiful Cramb' doth decry.

The number of letters IS nine
in the word you all try to divine.
From very great height
All of us might
Be viewed to this puzzle define.

Re #12: My guess was linguistic in sense,
How verbs vary in person and tense;
The marital visit
That's less than exquisite
Was a joke at a cognate's expense.

I now see the form was a clue
to a limerick I once thought I knew
A verb on a date
declines to conjugate
but that's not the word that will do.

I'm afraid that this person's a liar;
His flip-flops are hard to admire.
But drop his last three,
Now he's frank as can be,
And his pants are no longer on fire.

//Not a reference to any particular individual.//

The political system's a skank
And I'm being totally frank,
When a name on the ballot
Requires a pallette
Of greenbacks straight from the bank.

Not: straight, height, obturate, obdurate, obfuscate, satiate, discriminate, moderate, temperate, criminate, reprobate, conjugate, candidate

Alpha not: candidate, conjugate, criminate, discriminate, height, moderate, obdurate, obfuscate, obturate, reprobate, satiate, straight, temperate

// Apologies for forgetting to update the status //

Some smart people believe girls exist
To observe the old teachings of Christ
Learn from Adam and Eve
Have lots of sex and breed
To stay clear of the virginal cyst

Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the children of one's youth. Not procreate.

Not: straight, height, obturate, obdurate, obfuscate, satiate, discriminate, moderate, temperate, criminate, reprobate, conjugate, candidate, procreate

Alpha not: candidate, conjugate, criminate, discriminate, height, moderate, obdurate, obfuscate, obturate, procreate, reprobate, satiate, straight, temperate

There was a sage Buddha from Chad
Who seldom if ever felt sad
He laughed from his path of Eightfold
when folks died from hunger and cold
That happy wise Buddha from Chad

(6) has not yet appeared in the "NOT" List, although
3 other tri-syllables that have the same prefix have appeared.
(6) has now had emphasis added to bring out the
Latinate elements in the guess.

#21 I'm afraid I need a little more enlightenment on this one!
#22 & #6 My apologies Roland. I clearly thought that my alliterative efforts obviated the need to correctly discern your suggestion!

Not: straight, height, obturate, obdurate, obfuscate, satiate, discriminate, moderate, temperate, criminate, reprobate, conjugate, candidate, procreate, obviate

Alpha not: candidate, conjugate, criminate, discriminate, height, moderate, obdurate, obfuscate, obturate, obviate, procreate, reprobate, satiate, straight, temperate

Have we had a visual clue before?

A young fowl (or chick, to be terse)
On this verb's Latin root might converse.
A fecund egg-layer
Is such a teem player.
Push me early? No, quite the reverse!

#24
The chook is a sociable bird
And whose soft gentle tones are oft heard
As she snaps with her beak
At the phylum you seek
Making crowds with an alternate word

Not: straight, height, obturate, obdurate, obfuscate, satiate, discriminate, moderate, temperate, criminate, reprobate, conjugate, candidate, procreate, obviate, pullulate

Alpha not: candidate, conjugate, criminate, discriminate, height, moderate, obdurate, obfuscate, obturate, obviate, pullulate, procreate, reprobate, satiate, straight, temperate

In ponerine ants, it's been seen
That this worker might breed, not a queen.
Yet the word makes me chortle:
It looks like a portal
For players who stare at a screen.

I feared that you'd think me a lamer,
If I failed to discover the name - a
Worker that breeds
Is not what we needs.
Here's a clue, and a tiny disclaimer.

The limerick form could be prone,
To considerably lower the tone
With words that could tend
To grossly offend,
Or elicit an audible groan.

yet...

At the risk of raising your dander
To sensitive natures I'll pander
The solution's a letter,
Or less, even better,
from the nongermane word "to philander".

Not: straight, height, obturate, obdurate, obfuscate, satiate, discriminate, moderate, temperate, criminate, reprobate, conjugate, candidate, procreate, obviate, pullulate, gamergate

Alpha not: candidate, conjugate, criminate, discriminate, gamergate, height, moderate, obdurate, obfuscate, obturate, obviate, pullulate, procreate, reprobate, satiate, straight, temperate

There once was a girl from Cape Cod,
Who dreamt she'd been screwed by God.
It wasn't the Almighty,
Who lifted her nightie,
But Roger the lodger, the dirty old codger, the bugger, the bastard, the sod.

That last line doesn't scan properly, that's part of the point!

A true Christian, Jehu, from the West
Said he knows how to love lord the best
He burned Buddha's gold shrine
And called him a fat swine
That religious, brave man from the West

I knew that this would turn ugly :-)
Maybe a round of haiku would be more civilised!

No more verse,
I'm turning terse.

#29 I'm thinking "violate", but it only has 8 letters. And where are the ants?
#30 I'll go with "desecrate" - can ants desecrate?

Not: straight, height, obturate, obdurate, obfuscate, satiate, discriminate, moderate, temperate, criminate, reprobate, conjugate, candidate, procreate, obviate, pullulate, gamergate, violate, desecrate

Alpha not: candidate, conjugate, criminate, desecrate, discriminate, gamergate, height, moderate, obdurate, obfuscate, obturate, obviate, pullulate, procreate, reprobate, satiate, straight, temperate, violate

There once was a young girl from my suite
Who lived upon house ants and pigs' feet
When they did not agree
She drank hot green tea
then tried hard to sprout chives on a seat

Could a verb meaning "swarm" break this deadlock,
With the Latin for "ant" as its bedrock?
It breeds the neurosis
Of parasitosis;
Change its fourth, then it's sex out of wedlock.

#32 Was this propagate?

#33
Buck, the scholar and gent,
Receives applause and assent.
To formicate
is to swarm with a mate
or a million. That's the word that I meant.

Over to you, Buck.

Not: straight, height, obturate, obdurate, obfuscate, satiate, discriminate, moderate, temperate, criminate, reprobate, conjugate, candidate, procreate, obviate, pullulate, gamergate, violate, desecrate, propagate

Alpha not: candidate, conjugate, criminate, desecrate, discriminate, gamergate, height, moderate, obdurate, obfuscate, obturate, obviate, pullulate, procreate, propagate, reprobate, satiate, straight, temperate, violate

Indeed: formicate

Good game, Rodney. If I'd known you'd chosen such a near-risqué word, I wouldn't have dragged us into limerick territory. (Well, probably not.)

New round coming up shortly...and here it is.