| Perhaps smoke and mirrors regularly function in illusionist's cover |
The Telegraph Toughie |
12 Sep 2025 |
| Something causing a rash (8) |
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| Bother, nuisance (8) |
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| What gets under your skin? |
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| Cause of discomfort (8) |
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| Grabbing roller, it ain't about to be a nuisance (8) |
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| Bothersome nuisance (8) |
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| Annoyance |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
20 Jan 2025 |
| Tear gas? Bother! |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
30 Oct 2024 |
| It's annoying, and I ultimately bluster and yell when holding it |
The Times Quick Cryptic |
19 Oct 2024 |
| Annoying girl fills in old Tax Office books |
The Times Cryptic |
10 Aug 2024 |
| Something that causes annoyance |
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| Exasperating uneducated woman stops one perhaps reading books |
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| I shout about grit - not good - that in shoe, perhaps |
The Times Quick Cryptic |
07 Jun 2024 |
| A substance that causes slight inflammation or discomfort to the body (8) |
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| Annoyance of stupid endless train trip (8) |
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| Posh car in Titian reproduction is a nuisance (8) |
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| T___ rarity almost affected g___ for one (8) |
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| Pesky annoyance |
Premier Sunday |
30 Jul 2023 |
| Source of annoyance |
The Times Concise |
08 Jun 2023 |
| Irish girl meeting conservationists, a thorn in the flesh |
The Times Cryptic |
17 Oct 2022 |
| Source of continual annoyance |
The Times Concise |
26 Sep 2022 |
| Salt on an open wound, for example |
Wall Street Journal |
25 Jan 2022 |
| Pain in the neck |
The Guardian Quick |
11 Nov 2021 |
| Two of the Kings of Ireland, one upset by heartless taunt that's a thorn in someone's side |
Irish Times Crosaire |
18 Oct 2021 |
| Inflammation-causing substance such as pollen |
USA Today |
15 Aug 2021 |
| Source of annoyance |
The Times Concise |
01 Jul 2021 |
| Annoyance: a lot of anger and rage about it |
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| Cause of itch |
The Telegraph Quick |
20 Sep 2019 |
| Irish girl joins National Trust – a cause of annoyance |
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| Institute writing with bluster over city centre will only inflame things |
Irish Times Crosaire |
27 Mar 2019 |
| Annoying train, it runs irregularly |
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| Trouble girl to make entry in old tax office books |
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| Source of annoyance |
The Times Concise |
25 Apr 2018 |
| Fly in the ointment |
Newsday |
27 Jan 2018 |
| Itch making one declaim, about to scratch |
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| Grain of sand, to a pearl oyster |
USA Today |
08 Dec 2016 |
| Nuisance |
Eugene Sheffer |
12 Sep 2016 |
| Smoke in one's eyes, say |
New York Times |
20 Jul 2016 |
| Grain of sand, to a pearl oyster |
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| Smoke in one's eyes, say |
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| Pain in rear starts slowing down worker |
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| Pebble in one's shoe, e.g. |
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| Trouble girl to fill in Tax Office books |
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| Pain in the neck |
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| Miss Hayworth's aboard faulty train — a damned nuisance… |
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| Pain in the neck |
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| Princess's pea, e.g. |
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| Dripping faucet, perhaps |
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| Poison ivy sap, e.g. |
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| Pest |
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| Cause of a rash |
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| The pea, to the princess |
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| Princess's pea, e.g. |
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| Cigar smoke, to some |
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| Tear gas, e.g. |
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| Sand in a shoe, i.e. |
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| Galling. |
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| Cause of annoyance. |
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| Agent of annoyance. |
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