Possible Clues:

• Hold things tightly with them
• Tools left in piles
• Hand tool
• Tool with jaws for gripping small objects
• Needlenose implement
• Perils (anag)
• They grip food, both hands stuffed inside edges
• Toolbox gripping tool
• In postscript, reportedly, one not telling truth needs to get a grip
• Around fifty the jetties make one feel the pinch