| SCRATCH | Find something irritating and withdraw from event |
| SCRATCHY | Withdraw from event before end of relay, causing irritation (8) |
| THROWINTHETOWEL | Worthwhile to net bucks and withdraw from fight (5,2,3,5) |
| SECEDES | Point where it yields and withdraws from the rest (7) |
| SAND | It's coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere |
| IMP | He's small and irritating and, having lied, is understood (3) |
| NOTATRACE | No sign of -- absent from event (3,1,5) |
| TRAVELS | Proceeds from event finally attributed to composer? (7) |
| DISCS | Perhaps counters United being disqualified from event |
| SEVENTYEIGHT | Old record from event you kept within view |
| STITCH | Good person with something irritating, a sort of pain |
| ITCH | Something irritating, Hitchcock gathers |
| ANNOYANCE | Anyone can produce something irritating (9) |
| TEARGAS | Something irritating in opening chatter |
| ITCHINESS | Wound in chest is something irritating |
| ALTHORN | Brass, a pound on something irritating |
| PRIGS | Irritating and demanding fussers |
| BITCHY | Bighead, irritating and spiteful |
| ITCHIER | Comparatively irritating, and more malicious after the start |
| SMIRKS | Son getting married is irritating and looks smug (6) |
