Possible Clues:

• Provoked Inland Revenue with King Edward
• Grinned, sergeant-major leaving in a huff?
• Distressed by home-made bomb around edges of roadblock
• Quite irritated
• Upset, one shade seen when angry about king
• Got to fly: inspector’s outside at the front!
• Bothered or pestered
• Cut by point of knife, one bloodied makes wound up
• ... annoyed having one end of stick splitting beetroot
• In a fit of pique