| Rating | Solver | Clue |
|---|---|---|
| SURLY | Fractious | |
| IRRITABLE | Fractious | |
| FRETFUL | Fractious | |
| FACTIOUS | Fractious when losing the right to be divisive | |
| ILL-NATURED | Of habitual bad temper; peevish; fractious; cross; crabbed; surly; as, an ill-natured person. | |
| FRACTIOUS | Apt to break out into a passion; apt to scold; cross; snappish; ugly; unruly; as, a fractious man; a fractious horse. | |