These answers tied to “Annoys” aren’t hypothetical—they come from crossword completions where solvers encountered the same clue wording. Each entry shown here proved to be correct.
Answer List:
- RILES
- IRKS
- VEXES
- PESTERS
- TEASES
- RUBSTHEWRONGWAY
- EATSAT
- PEEVES
- TORMENTS
- BUGS
- NETTLES
- IRRITATES
- MIFFS
- TICKSOFF
- GALLS
- NEEDLES
Synonyms and Definitions
RILES
- Synonyms: annoy, bother, chafe, devil, get at, get to, gravel, irritate, nark, nettle, rag, rile, roil, vex
IRKS
- Synonyms: gall, irk
VEXES
- Synonyms: agitate, amaze, baffle, beat, bewilder, commove, disturb, dumbfound, flummox, get, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, raise up, shake up, stick, stir up, stupefy, worry
PESTERS
- Synonyms: badger, beleaguer, bug, pester, tease
TEASES
- Synonyms: annoyer, bait, card, cod, coquette, flirt, fluff, loosen, minx, prickteaser, rally, razz, ribbing, ride, tantalise, tantalization, tantalize, taunt, tease apart, teaser, teasing, twit, vamp, vamper, vexer
TORMENTS
- Synonyms: agony, anguish, badgering, bedevil, bedevilment, crucify, curse, dun, excruciate, frustrate, harassment, rack, torture, worrying
BUGS
- Synonyms: germ, glitch, hemipteran, hemipteron, hemipterous insect, intercept, microbe, tap, wiretap
NETTLES
- Synonyms: urticate
MIFFS
- Synonyms: huff, seeing red
GALLS
- Synonyms: bile, bitterness, cheekiness, crust, freshness, fret, impertinence, impudence, insolence, rancor, rancour, resentment, saddle sore
NEEDLES
- Synonyms: acerate leaf, goad, phonograph needle