Deliberately provoking (7)
I believe the answer is:
baiting
'deliberately provoking' is the definition.
(I've seen this in another clue)
This is all the clue.
(Another definition for baiting that I've seen is " Taunting".)
I've seen this clue in the USA Today.
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