### Clue: Peevish Le Pen jumpily interrupting a lot of criticism (9)
### Answer: SPLENETIC 
 ### Explanation: Definition: Peevish
definition: bad-tempered, irritable
 
anagram/"jumpily" of (Le Pen)*, inside STIC-k="a lot of" the letters from 'stick'="criticism" as in 'they got stick for arriving late'