Possible Clues:

• Annoyed and irritable
• Call to imprison a pair of bishops displaying cross
• Ill-mannered clamour about pop group curtailed
• Short person driving around middle of fairway
• Bad-tempered person driving taxi across river
• Ill-tempered taxi driver having to cross river
• Cross, as one scuttling off?
• Ill-natured shout about a British bishop
• Irritable (informal)
• Cantankerous as a crustacean?