Very smelly soldiers beginning to exasperate His Maj? (7)
I believe the answer is:
reeking
'very smelly' is the definition.
'reeking' can be an answer for 'smelly' (thesaurus). I'm unsure of the 'very' bit.
'soldiers beginning to exasperate his maj?' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'soldiers' could be 're' (Royal Engineers) and 're' is found within the answer.
The remaining letters 'eking' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't understand.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for reeking that I've seen before include "Stinking" , "Foul smelling" , "With a very unpleasant smell" , "Emitting smoke" , "Having a foul smell" .)