Related Clues:

• that made one cross in the way of a trial, perhaps
• Trying to be trying
• Was the ship broken in bits? That's nasty
• Did the ship get broken in such a stinging way?
• Perhaps trying to be bad-tempered
• Touchy in the matter of a match, perhaps
• Seems this is trying to make one so cross
• 'Trying, perhaps, to cross this (5)'
• Sort of trying to be 5 down
• Fractious
• Cross check may end
• Like a model's lips, perhaps
• Easily snapping
• Plaintive
• Easily angered - with black and yellow stripes?