The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word IRKED
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More clues leading to the result IRKED
- Got to fly: inspector’s outside at the front!
- Heads of Inland Revenue kept exacting demands, which was annoying
- Annoyed when made permanent, knight goes right in
- King aboard rough ride gets irritated
- Bugged – without silence, didn’t work
- Annoyed Irish king — extremely exasperated
- Cut by point of knife, one bloodied makes wound up
- … annoyed having one end of stick splitting beetroot
- Wound up mini grandfather clock at the back with two keys
- Exasperated, she nearly quit, neglected responsibility
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The straight part
We know that "Got to" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case got to = irked.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does IRKED mean?
IRKED verb- To irritate; annoy; bother
- Annoyed.