On the day, dead annoyed about its being full of holes (7)

I believe the answer is:

riddled

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'being full of holes' is the definition.

'on the day dead annoyed about' is the wordplay.
'on' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'the day' becomes 'd'.
'dead' becomes 'd'.
'annoyed' becomes 'riled' ('rile' can be a synonym of 'annoy').
'about' indicates putting letters inside.
'd' after 'd' is 'dd'.
'dd' placed inside 'riled' is 'RIDDLED'.

'its' acts as a link.
I am not very happy about this link. It may belong to another bit of the clue.

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(Other definitions for riddled that I've seen before include "spoken obscurely" , "Spread throughout" , "Pierced with many holes as by tommygun" , "screened" , "didn't talk plainly" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.

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