The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word TETCHY
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More clues leading to the result TETCHY
- Put out your old clothes and the rest
- Make an impression in Turkey’s borders, being irritable
- Cross close to short cut by yard
- Easily irritated, one leaves the City in turmoil
- Computer enthusiast over time liable to blow fuse
- Good at IT, though keeping tense and irritable
- Irritable and tense during college year
- And what have you in your ancient livery?
- Irritable, offensive, cold, hungry, gutted
- Your old blankets and so on getting ratty
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The straight part
We know that "irritable" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case irritable = tetchy.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does TETCHY mean?
TETCHY adjective- Easily annoyed or irritated; peevish, testy or irascible.