The clue “Angry” has led to these answers in published crosswords. Each option below has been tested through solving patterns that line up with the format you’re currently working on.
Likely Answers:
- SORE
- STEAMEDUP
- MAD
- IRATE
- UPSET
- HETUP
- RATTY
- INAHUFF
- HEATED
- INATEMPER
- LIVID
- ENRAGED
- WROTH
- STERN
- SHIRTY
- BITTER
- INDIGNANT
- STROPPY
- ANNOYED
Synonyms and Definitions
SORE
- Synonyms: afflictive, huffy, mad, painful, raw, sensitive, tender
- Definition: a skin infection that is exposed
MAD
- Synonyms: brainsick, crazy, delirious, demented, disturbed, excited, frantic, harebrained, insane, sick, sore, unbalanced, unhinged, unrestrained
- Definition: Stirred up to anger
IRATE
- Synonyms: ireful
- Definition: Experiencing or displaying intense fury.
UPSET
- Synonyms: bowl over, broken, confused, derangement, discomfit, discompose, disconcert, disorder, disordered, disquieted, distressed, disturb, disturbance, knock over, overthrow, overturn, overturned, perturbation, swage, tip over, trouble, tump over, turn over, turnover, untune, upturned, worried
- Definition: a distressed and anxious state of mind
RATTY
- Synonyms: moth-eaten, shabby, tatty
HEATED
- Synonyms: fire up, heat, heat up, heated up, het, het up, hot up, ignite, inflame, stir up, wake
- Definition: Increase the temperature or make it warmer.
LIVID
- Synonyms: ashen, black-and-blue, blanched, bloodless, white
ENRAGED
- Synonyms: angered, enrage, furious, infuriated, maddened
WROTH
- Synonyms: wrathful, wrothful
STERN
- Synonyms: after part, arse, ass, austere, backside, behind, bottom, bum, buns, butt, buttocks, can, derriere, exacting, fanny, fundament, grim, hind end, hindquarters, inexorable, keister, nates, poop, posterior, prat, quarter, rear, rear end, relentless, rump, seat, severe, stark, strict, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush, unappeasable, unforgiving, unrelenting
SHIRTY
- Synonyms: snorty
BITTER
- Synonyms: acerb, acerbic, acid, acrid, acrimonious, biting, bitterness, blistering, caustic, sulfurous, sulphurous, virulent, vitriolic
INDIGNANT
- Synonyms: incensed, outraged, umbrageous
STROPPY
- Synonyms: bolshy
ANNOYED
- Synonyms: annoy, bother, chafe, devil, get at, get to, gravel, harassed, harried, irritate, irritated, miffed, nark, nettle, nettled, peeved, pestered, pissed, pissed off, rag, rile, riled, roiled, steamed, stung, vex, vexed
- Definition: Provoke irritation in; disrupt, particularly through minor annoyances.