Related Clues:

• At peak pique
• One rodent with tail in snare hacked off
• Getting close, perhaps
• It's hot you say? When someone's close to finding hiding-and-go-seek champion!
• Middle of trial: judge becomes furious
• Friendly group of workers needing no introduction
• Sore and then some
• Close hostilities with ultimatum, finally
• One judge is far from happy
• Annoyed thief on a boat losing power
• Blackbeard, say, doesn't start being angry
• Angry group of proletarians turned up
• In a frenzy, buccaneer loses the head
• Like the space near a lit fireplace
• Angry sea bandit losing plot initially