| Fractious (6) |
The Guardian Quick |
12 Jul 2025 |
| Irascible, grumpy (6) |
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| Type of person constantly getting their nips in? (6) |
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| Cantankerous, bad-tempered, testy (6) |
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| Grumpy, irritable |
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| Bad-tempered |
The Times Concise |
24 Feb 2025 |
| Crusty like crustaceans? (6) |
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| Irritable driver gets right stuck in (6) |
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| Bad-tempered crustacean alongside (6) |
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| Tetchy, ill-tempered (6) |
Puzzler Backwords |
28 Nov 2024 |
| Like night owls who get woken up early, maybe |
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| Bad-tempered driver clipping rear of another |
The Telegraph Toughie |
30 Jul 2024 |
| Bad-tempered taxi driver picking up royal (6) |
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| Bossy and walks sideways? (6) |
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| Irascible taxi-driver keeping right (6) |
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| Cross first of roads passed round by driver |
The Guardian Cryptic |
21 Mar 2024 |
| Bad-tempered whine about a couple of books |
The Times Quick Cryptic |
21 Mar 2024 |
| Irascible, like a crustacean (6) |
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| Irritable (colloq) (6) |
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| Bad-tempered taxi-driver picks up Royal (6) |
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| Irritable taxi driver? About right (6) |
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| Annoyed and irritable |
The Guardian Quick |
19 Sep 2023 |
| Bad-tempered |
The Telegraph Quick |
12 Sep 2023 |
| Call to imprison a pair of bishops displaying cross |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
21 Jul 2023 |
| Bad-tempered |
The Guardian Quick |
27 Apr 2023 |
| Ill-mannered clamour about pop group curtailed |
The Guardian Cryptic |
16 Feb 2023 |
| Short person driving around middle of fairway |
The Telegraph Toughie |
29 Nov 2022 |
| Bad-tempered person driving taxi across river |
The Times Cryptic |
02 Aug 2022 |
| Bad-tempered |
The Times Concise |
29 Jan 2022 |
| Ill-tempered taxi driver having to cross river |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
12 May 2021 |
| Bad-tempered |
The Times Concise |
31 Mar 2021 |
| Cry-baby mostly unsettled and grouchy |
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| Ill-tempered taxi driver parked around rear end |
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| Someone who is grouchy or easily irritated |
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| Cry-baby mostly unsettled and grouchy |
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| Ill-natured shout about a British bishop |
The Sun Two Speed |
02 Aug 2020 |
| Irritable |
The Sun Two Speed |
02 Aug 2020 |
| Taxi driver collects queen in a bad mood |
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| Irritable (informal) |
The Sun Two Speed |
05 Feb 2020 |
| Cantankerous as a crustacean? |
The Sun Two Speed |
05 Feb 2020 |
| Bad-tempered and grouchy |
Family Time |
05 Jan 2020 |
| Nipping sideways possibly, cross |
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| Irritable passenger in the end picked up by driver |
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| Bad-tempered, irritable |
The Times Concise |
04 Feb 2019 |
| Bad-tembered taxi driver crossing river |
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| King of music in racy novel that's short |
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| Taxi driver circling King's Cross |
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| Irritable — as one being shelled? |
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| Shed tears over one character leaving ABBA in a foul mood |
Irish Times Crosaire |
17 Nov 2017 |
| Runs into kind of driver liable to have road rage? |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
16 Jul 2017 |
| Irritating wail outside a hotel |
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| Curmudgeonly |
New York Times |
25 Dec 2016 |
| Bad-tempered |
Newsday |
06 Sep 2016 |
| In bad mood, driver keeps right |
The Times Cryptic |
30 Jun 2016 |
| Out of sorts, express sadness about university offer? |
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| Ill-natured |
Eugene Sheffer |
02 Jun 2016 |
| Driver crossing river in a foul mood |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
18 May 2016 |
| Curmudgeonly |
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| Shed tears over one character leaving Abba cross |
Irish Times Crosaire |
17 Jun 2015 |
| Keen to collect two blood groups — not happy |
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| Irritable taxi driver having to cross river |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
04 Mar 2015 |
| Bad-tempered |
USA Today |
01 Jan 2015 |
| Bad-tempered |
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| Irritable driver introduces rule |
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| Awkward call about a pair of bachelors |
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| Irascible |
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| Without headrest, taxi driver gets irritable |
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| Cantankerous driver keeps right |
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| Like a grouch |
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| Grouchy |
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| Cantankerous |
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| Cantankerous |
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| In a foul mood |
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| Cantankerous |
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| Cantankerous |
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| Temperamental supercomputer captures twp (sic) bytes |
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| Inclined to complaining |
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| Like Lucy of "Peanuts" |
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| Like a grouch |
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| Cantankerous |
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| Testy |
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| Ill-tempered |
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| Unpleasant |
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| In an unpleasant mood |
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| Like a grouch |
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| Like a grouch |
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| Bad-tempered |
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| Peevish |
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| Inclined to complaining |
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| Irritable |
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| Churlish |
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| Ill-tempered |
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