Possible Clues:

• Citrate (anag.)
• Make allowances, keeping it up with increasing rancour
• More malicious act affected band
• Row after whip becomes more spiteful
• More spiteful
• Meaner race, it's going off round Thai capital
• Queen, in front of row, is more spiteful
• More like a bitch, paradoxically?
• More malicious
• Many a pussyfoot that is, before mid-afternoon, more malicious