Related Clues:

• Under stress or lacking spontaneity
• Verb form, indicates time
• Strained, taut
• Stretched, extended to the limit
• 'Tense, nervous (2,4)'
• If perhaps the Dr was so nervous, it might help him to get to the bottom of the matter
• It was wet at the end of the street and that got the dirt out of it
• Tight in verbal form.
• Verbally uptight?
• Ted's about to get wet for a stretch
• Verbally uptight
• XXXE, perhaps, just for a present, for instance
• Tight in verbal form
• Perhaps intention, by the sound of it, to have been wet at last
• Not so slack in any verbal way