| Rub up the wrong way |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
13 Sep 2025 |
| Be a pest to |
Newsday |
09 Sep 2025 |
| Get under someone's skin |
|
|
| Irritate |
The Telegraph Mini |
22 Aug 2025 |
| PA system not starting will irritate (5) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
17 Aug 2025 |
| Pester |
The Telegraph Quick |
12 Aug 2025 |
| Rile |
Puzzler Backwords |
07 Aug 2025 |
| Pester |
Newsday |
16 Jul 2025 |
| Bother, irritate |
|
|
| Wind up speaker that is out of time |
|
|
| To pester (5) |
|
|
| Pester(5) |
|
|
| Pester |
Puzzler Backwords |
24 May 2025 |
| Irk |
Universal |
10 May 2025 |
| Bother |
Universal |
07 May 2025 |
| Pester |
New York Times |
05 May 2025 |
| Aggravate a small number in New York (5) |
|
|
| Vex, bother (5) |
|
|
| Vex (5) |
Puzzler |
09 Apr 2025 |
| Vex |
The Sun Two Speed |
07 Apr 2025 |
| PA with no starter to eat? |
The Sun Two Speed |
07 Apr 2025 |
| Number being short will, in any setting, rattle one (5) |
|
|
| Cheese off |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
03 Apr 2025 |
| To irritate (5) |
|
|
| Irk, vex (5) |
|
|
| Bug |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
27 Mar 2025 |
| Irritate |
Thomas Joseph |
26 Mar 2025 |
| Rile |
Puzzler Backwords |
10 Mar 2025 |
| Any rejection coming through will nettle (5) |
|
|
| Rile |
Commuter |
25 Feb 2025 |
| Nettle is negative in any circumstances (5) |
|
|
| Get on the nerves of |
Commuter |
17 Feb 2025 |
| Irritate, irk |
|
|
| No, in any circumstances, will cause irritation (5) |
|
|
| Be a pain to |
Newsday |
09 Feb 2025 |
| Bother |
USA Today |
05 Feb 2025 |
| Rile |
Commuter |
31 Jan 2025 |
| Bug to no end |
USA Today |
29 Jan 2025 |
| Bug found in mayonnaise that's turned |
|
|
| Girl with old Yankee to irritate |
The Sun Two Speed |
18 Jan 2025 |
| Bother or vex |
The Sun Two Speed |
18 Jan 2025 |
| Displease a number in any case (5) |
|
|
| Pester |
Mirror Tea Time |
04 Jan 2025 |
| Irk |
USA Today |
22 Dec 2024 |
| Irk |
New York Times Mini |
18 Dec 2024 |
| Refusal, in any case, to be a nuisance (5) |
|
|
| To say No any way will be a nuisance (5) |
|
|
| Trouble in levy on native from the East (5) |
|
|
| Drive nuts |
Commuter |
06 Dec 2024 |
| In any negative it will be irritating (5) |
|
|
| Get on one's nerves |
|
|
| Giving Dobermann oysters secretly to needle them |
|
|
| Pester |
Universal |
01 Dec 2024 |
| Bug the heck out of |
|
|
| Bother someone |
|
|
| Pester |
Eugene Sheffer |
20 Nov 2024 |
| Irritate |
USA Today |
19 Nov 2024 |
| A negative in any trouble (5) |
|
|
| Get on the nerves of |
New York Times Mini |
07 Nov 2024 |
| Trouble, vex (5) |
|
|
| Be a nuisance to give a refusal in New York (5) |
|
|
| Pester |
Universal |
02 Nov 2024 |
| Be bothersome |
USA Today |
01 Nov 2024 |
| In any case a refusal will not please |
|
|
| Irritate, in any case, by including "No" (5) |
|
|
| Irritate, tease |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
01 Oct 2024 |
| Drive up a wall |
LA Times Daily |
30 Sep 2024 |
| Be a pain in the neck |
|
|
| In any case, a refusal will offend |
|
|
| Peeve |
Universal |
11 Sep 2024 |
| Bug |
New York Times |
08 Sep 2024 |
| Bother a number in U.S. city (5) |
|
|
| Bug PA losing head (5) |
|
|
| Get on the nerves of |
USA Today |
28 Aug 2024 |
| PA system with time off can rile (5) |
|
|
| To irritate or displease (5) |
|
|
| Some boys, after a girl, cause displeasure (5) |
|
|
| Irk |
The Telegraph Mini |
14 Aug 2024 |
| In any circumstances turn may give one a lot of pain (5) |
|
|
| Ruffle the feathers of |
USA Today |
21 Jul 2024 |
| Rile |
Puzzler Backwords |
01 Jul 2024 |
| Speaker doesn't start trouble (5) |
|
|
| Cause slight anger to (5) |
Mirror Classic |
18 Jun 2024 |
| Pester |
USA Today |
28 May 2024 |
| Irritate, pester (5) |
|
|
| Irk a number in U.S. city (5) |
|
|
| Somewhat regressive carry on, naturally, will irritate them |
|
|
| Vex (5) |
The Guardian Quick |
10 May 2024 |
| Upset PA sees head of team leaving |
|
|
| Pester |
Newsday |
30 Apr 2024 |
| Bother or irritate |
|
|
| Irritate girl and boy, losing head |
The Times Quick Cryptic |
25 Apr 2024 |
| Ask the bus driver "Are we there yet?" over and over, say |
|
|
| Any restriction on back will irritate (5) |
|
|
| Regularly warning of unknown bug |
The Times Cryptic |
02 Apr 2024 |
| Bother or irritate |
|
|
| Any inclusion of negative will rattle one (5) |
|
|
| Pester |
Puzzler Backwords |
09 Mar 2024 |
| Upset girl with nothing to question, we hear (5) |
|
|
| Any with negative content irritate (5) |
|
|
| Vex a number in any case (5) |
|
|
| Sound system not starting will irritate (5) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
26 Feb 2024 |
| A negative in some trouble |
|
|
| Pester somebody (5) |
|
|
| Any number intruding can be a nuisance |
|
|
| Any number come in just to be irritating (5) |
|
|
| Woman, extremely ordinary, getting bug |
|
|
| A refusal, in any case, will displease |
|
|
| In any case, a refusal will displease |
|
|
| Irritate or displease |
Mirror Classic |
04 Feb 2024 |
| Irritate, displease (5) |
|
|
| Can no Yankee conceal anger? (5) |
|
|
| Get to |
Newsday |
27 Jan 2024 |
| Bother |
New York Times Mini |
18 Jan 2024 |
| Pester |
Mirror Tea Time |
30 Dec 2023 |
| Pester |
Puzzler Backwords |
23 Dec 2023 |
| Pester |
The Telegraph Quick |
12 Dec 2023 |
| Persistently irritate |
|
|
| Get on one's nerves |
|
|
| Pique |
New York Times |
29 Nov 2023 |
| Bother someone |
|
|
| Irritate |
The Telegraph Quick |
23 Nov 2023 |
| Pester |
Newsday |
30 Oct 2023 |
| Get under someone's skin |
|
|
| Some hold refusal to be irritating |
The Guardian Cryptic |
25 Sep 2023 |
| Needle |
The Telegraph Quick |
16 Sep 2023 |
| Pester |
Eugene Sheffer |
15 Sep 2023 |
| Pester |
Eugene Sheffer |
25 Aug 2023 |
| Be a pain in the neck |
Family Time |
13 Aug 2023 |
| Irritate to no end, say |
|
|
| Wear thin |
Newsday |
15 Jul 2023 |
| Vex |
The Telegraph Quick |
13 Jul 2023 |
| Bother someone |
|
|
| Irk |
Universal |
21 Apr 2023 |
| Get under someone's skin |
|
|
| Needle |
New York Times |
12 Apr 2023 |
| Be a bother to |
Newsday |
28 Mar 2023 |
| Irritate any number inside |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
27 Mar 2023 |
| Pester |
Newsday |
12 Mar 2023 |
| Irritate |
Universal |
09 Mar 2023 |
| Pester continually |
|
|
| Drive up the wall |
Wall Street Journal |
30 Jan 2023 |
| Irritate constantly |
|
|
| Be a bother to |
Newsday |
03 Jan 2023 |
| Irritate |
The Telegraph Quick |
22 Dec 2022 |
| Pester |
Newsday |
22 Nov 2022 |
| Get to |
New York Times |
12 Nov 2022 |
| Bother |
The Guardian Quick |
01 Nov 2022 |
| Bother |
USA Today |
19 Oct 2022 |
| Put out |
New York Times |
24 Sep 2022 |
| Irritate |
Thomas Joseph |
12 Sep 2022 |
| Needle |
LA Times Daily |
03 Sep 2022 |
| Irritate |
Wall Street Journal |
06 Aug 2022 |
| Pester |
Newsday |
27 Jul 2022 |
| Be a pest to |
Newsday |
07 Jun 2022 |
| Get on one's nerves |
|
|
| Get under someone's skin |
|
|
| Gall |
Wall Street Journal |
20 Apr 2022 |
| Vex |
Premier Sunday |
10 Apr 2022 |
| Bother or irritate |
|
|
| Pester |
Newsday |
14 Mar 2022 |
| Bug |
The Washington Post |
04 Feb 2022 |
| Bug |
LA Times Daily |
04 Feb 2022 |
| Tick off |
Newsday |
03 Feb 2022 |
| Really get to |
Newsday |
27 Jan 2022 |
| Vex |
The Guardian Quick |
30 Dec 2021 |
| Number getting into some trouble |
|
|
| Number getting into some trouble |
The Guardian Cryptic |
02 Nov 2021 |
| Irritate a small number in US city |
The Times Cryptic |
04 Oct 2021 |
| Nettle |
Newsday |
12 Sep 2021 |
| Anger some when accepting refusal |
|
|
| Rankle |
Newsday |
19 Aug 2021 |
| Pester |
Thomas Joseph |
12 Aug 2021 |
| Get on one's nerves |
|
|
| Bother |
New York Times |
18 May 2021 |
| Irk |
Universal |
09 May 2021 |
| Irritate |
Newsday |
04 May 2021 |
| Keep interrupting, say |
Newsday |
01 May 2021 |
| Bother |
USA Today |
10 Apr 2021 |
| Pester continually |
|
|
| Irritate |
LA Times Daily |
01 Mar 2021 |
| Irritate |
The Washington Post |
01 Mar 2021 |
| Bother |
Wall Street Journal |
22 Feb 2021 |
| Pester |
Newsday |
16 Feb 2021 |
| Pester |
Eugene Sheffer |
05 Feb 2021 |
| Be a nuisance to |
Newsday |
23 Nov 2020 |
| PA with no starter to eat? |
The Sun Two Speed |
19 Nov 2020 |
| Bother or vex |
The Sun Two Speed |
19 Nov 2020 |
| Really bother |
Premier Sunday |
15 Nov 2020 |
| Bother or irritate |
|
|
| What an onslaught of political ads may do |
New York Times |
10 Nov 2020 |
| Bother someone |
|
|
| Get to or put out |
Newsday |
05 Sep 2020 |
| Trouble up in Lyon nasty |
The Sun Two Speed |
04 Aug 2020 |
| Irritate |
|
|
| Girl with old Yankee to irritate |
The Sun Two Speed |
11 Jun 2020 |
| Rub the wrong way |
|
|
| Irritate |
The Telegraph Quick |
01 Jun 2020 |
| Bug to no end |
USA Today |
31 May 2020 |
| Bug |
Universal |
13 May 2020 |
| Rub the wrong way, say |
|
|
| Rub the wrong way |
Wall Street Journal |
01 Apr 2020 |
| Irk |
Premier Sunday |
22 Mar 2020 |
| Be a pain in the neck |
|
|
| Rub the wrong way |
|
|
| Bug? There's a small number in a place over the pond |
|
|
| Put out |
Wall Street Journal |
04 Feb 2020 |
| Pester |
The Telegraph Quick |
04 Feb 2020 |
| Needle or nettle |
Newsday |
17 Nov 2019 |
| Drive bonkers, say |
|
|
| Mayonnaise sent back contains this bug |
|
|
| Irk |
The Telegraph Quick |
15 Sep 2019 |
| Bug |
Wall Street Journal |
14 Sep 2019 |
| Bother |
The Telegraph Quick |
06 Jun 2019 |
| Rub the wrong way |
New York Times |
04 Jun 2019 |
| Tick off |
Premier Sunday |
26 May 2019 |
| Bother or irk |
|
|
| No time for speaker to get angry |
|
|
| Bother |
Universal |
05 Apr 2019 |
| Cause to kvetch |
Newsday |
04 Apr 2019 |
| Grate on |
New York Times |
24 Feb 2019 |
| Public address system's beginning to go off? Bother! |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
01 Feb 2019 |
| Grate on |
|
|
| Bug |
|
|
| Bother |
|
|
| Rub the wrong way |
|
|
| Be a noodge to |
USA Today |
08 Dec 2018 |
| Get on someone's nerves |
|
|
| Be a pain in the neck |
|
|
| Get under one's skin |
LA Times Daily |
06 Sep 2018 |
| Get under one's skin |
The Washington Post |
06 Sep 2018 |
| Bother |
Thomas Joseph |
24 Aug 2018 |
| Irritate |
Universal |
04 Aug 2018 |
| Girl discovers young one heading off to get someone's goat |
Irish Times Crosaire |
30 Jun 2018 |
| Be a pest to |
USA Today |
17 Jun 2018 |
| Trouble repulsed in Lyon, naturally |
|
|
| Speaker loses the head with bug |
Irish Times Crosaire |
21 Apr 2018 |
| Taking front off sound system will rile |
The Sun Two Speed |
25 Mar 2018 |
| Exasperate |
The Sun Two Speed |
25 Mar 2018 |
| Irk |
The Washington Post Sunday |
04 Mar 2018 |
| Needle, say |
New York Times |
22 Feb 2018 |
| Be a noodge to |
|
|
| Be a pest to |
|
|
| Bug to no end |
|
|
| Needle, say |
|
|
| Irritate |
|
|
| Get under one's skin |
|
|
| Bother |
|
|
| Speaker doesn't begin to try |
|
|
| Bother man, non-Tory, on regular basis |
|
|
| Get on one's nerves |
|
|
| Get to |
New York Times |
18 Oct 2017 |
| Refusal to tuck into any bug |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
17 Oct 2017 |
| Irritate, or pester |
|
|
| Irritate |
|
|
| A small number in New York get plague |
|
|
| Pester |
Universal |
28 Jun 2017 |
| Be a thorn in the side of |
|
|
| Be a pain in the neck |
|
|
| In any case there's no trouble |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
27 Feb 2017 |
| Bother |
LA Times Daily |
13 Feb 2017 |
| Pester; irritate |
The Guardian Speedy |
15 Jan 2017 |
| Exasperate |
Newsday |
15 Jan 2017 |
| Get to |
|
|
| Pester |
|
|
| Make angry |
The Times Concise |
22 Dec 2016 |
| Irritate |
Thomas Joseph |
20 Dec 2016 |
| Vex |
New York Times |
10 Nov 2016 |
| Some mayonnaise poured back to drive you crazy |
|
|
| Be a pain in the neck |
Family Time |
01 May 2016 |
| Peeve |
Premier Sunday |
01 May 2016 |
| Make slightly angry |
The Times Concise |
14 Mar 2016 |
| Trouble caused by a small number in New York |
|
|
| Bug in PA system? Time's lost |
|
|
| Vex |
|
|
| Trouble |
The Washington Post |
17 Dec 2015 |
| Be a bother to |
Newsday |
23 Sep 2015 |
| Not positive in the slightest bit with bug |
Irish Times Crosaire |
05 Sep 2015 |
| Bug |
LA Times Daily |
02 Aug 2015 |
| Ruffle |
Wall Street Journal |
03 Jul 2015 |
| Rankle |
Universal |
18 May 2015 |
| Needle girl over end of journey |
|
|
| Bug |
Eugene Sheffer |
04 Feb 2015 |
| Rub the wrong way |
USA Today |
27 Jan 2015 |
| Be a pain to |
Newsday |
25 Jan 2015 |
| Bug |
|
|
| Be a bother to |
|
|
| Be a pain to |
|
|
| Really bother |
|
|
| Bother |
|
|
| Rankle |
|
|
| Bug |
|
|
| Pester |
|
|
| Rub the wrong way |
|
|
| Trouble |
|
|
| Rub the wrong way |
|
|
| Bug |
|
|
| Irritate |
|
|
| Ruffle |
|
|
| Harry turning, say, on naval guards |
|
|
| Simple refusal stops a bit of bother |
|
|
| Article leads to no end of ruddy trouble |
|
|
| Sound system not beginning to be a nuisance |
|
|
| Irk |
|
|
| Exasperate |
|
|
| Tick off |
|
|
| Be a bother to |
|
|
| Bother |
|
|
| Drive bonkers |
|
|
| Bug |
|
|
| What rowdy concergoer will do |
|
|
| Pester |
|
|
| Irritate |
|
|
| Be a pain in the neck |
|
|
| Rub the wrong way |
|
|
| Aggravate |
|
|
| Pester |
|
|
| Nettle |
|
|
| Bug |
|
|
| Bother |
|
|
| Disturb |
|
|
| Disturb |
|
|
| Rub the wrong way |
|
|
| Bother |
|
|
| Get to |
|
|
| Get under the skin of |
|
|
| Bother! The sound system won't start |
|
|
| Irritate |
|
|
| Tick off |
|
|
| Be a pest to |
|
|
| What sing-alonger will do |
|
|
| Get one's goat |
|
|
| Be a nuisance to |
|
|
| Bug |
|
|
| Bug |
|
|
| Harass |
|
|
| What a bad song will do |
|
|
| What gnats do |
|
|
| <<NO CLUE>> |
|
|
| Peeve |
|
|
| Irritate |
|
|
| Tee off |
|
|
| Nettle |
|
|
| What pests do |
|
|
| What pests do |
|
|
| Tee off |
|
|
| Irritate |
|
|
| Be a thorn in the side of |
|
|
| Be a thorn in the side of |
|
|
| Irk like crazy |
|
|
| Vex |
|
|
| Vex |
|
|
| Pester |
|
|
| Really bother |
|
|
| Rankle |
|
|
| Tee off |
|
|
| Be a thorn in the side of |
|
|
| Pester |
|
|
| Get to |
|
|
| Rile or rankle |
|
|
| Harry |
|
|
| Trouble |
|
|
| Get to |
|
|
| Bug |
|
|
| Really bother |
|
|
| Bug |
|
|
| Irk |
|
|
| Pester |
|
|
| Irk |
|
|
| Miff |
|
|
| Bug |
|
|
| Get to |
|
|
| Irritate |
|
|
| Pester |
|
|
| Really get to |
|
|
| Drive bananas |
|
|
| Vex |
|
|
| Plague |
|
|
| Needle |
|
|
| Rile or rankle |
|
|
| Get to, in a way |
|
|
| Bother |
|
|
| Hector |
|
|
| Tick off |
|
|
| Perturb |
|
|
| Pique |
|
|
| Get at |
|
|
| Get one's goat |
|
|
| Nettle |
|
|
| Tee off |
|
|
| Tick off |
|
|
| Irk |
|
|
| Needle |
|
|
| Nettle |
|
|
| Pester |
|
|
| Drive crazy |
|
|
| Irk |
|
|
| Needle, perhaps |
|
|
| Harry |
|
|
| Irk |
|
|
| Be a pain in the neck |
|
|
| Vex |
|
|
| Trouble |
|
|
| Get to |
|
|
| Drive bonkers |
|
|
| Bother |
|
|
| Slightly irritate |
|
|
| Discommode |
|
|
| Pester |
|
|
| Make hot under the collar |
|
|
| Bug |
|
|
| Bug |
|
|
| Tee off |
|
|
| Rankle |
|
|
| Be a pain in the neck |
|
|
| Hassle |
|
|
| Perturb |
|
|
| Irritate a small number in US city |
|
|
| Rub the wrong way |
|
|
| Irk |
|
|
| Harass |
|
|
| Irritate |
|
|
| Drive bonkers |
|
|
| Drive crazy |
|
|
| Needle |
|
|
| Harass |
|
|
| Tick off |
|
|
| Rankle |
|
|
| Irritate |
|
|
| Nettle |
|
|
| Trouble |
|
|
| Discommode. |
|
|
| Bother. |
|
|
| Irritate. |
|
|
| Disturb. |
|
|
| Harass. |
|
|
| Make angry. |
|
|
| Badger. |
|
|
| Get under the collar of |
|
|
| Be on the back of |
|
|
| Pester. |
|
|
| Vex. |
|
|
| "Bug." |
|
|