VEX

Cause distress to

• Anger

• Annoy

• Badger

• Bedevil

• Beleaguer

• Bother

• Bug

• Bug or badger

• Cause disquiet

• Cause to fret

• Con's last name

• Confound

• Confuse

• Disconcert

• Distress

• Eat at

• Exasperate

• Gall

• Irk

• Irritate

• Nettle

• Peeve

• Plague

• Plague at 5 E. 10

• Provoke

• Put out

• Puzzle

• Rankle

• Really irritate

• Really try

• Rile

• Rub the wrong way

• Ruffle

• Seriously annoy

• Stump

• Torment

• Trouble

• What lots of cross-referenced clues do to some solvers