Possible Clues:

• Eye inflammation or is it eye failing to open?
• Contributing to misty eyesight?
• Pen must go on top of escritoire - there's a problem with the lid
• Minor irritation to have you canonised?
• Way McBeal finally leaves is an irritation to the viewer
• Problem with lid English put on pen
• By the sound of it, that's for the swine of an eyesore
• Affliction of the lid
• It is small yet strangely irritating to the eye
• A way the old can show complaint