Related Clues:

• Nervous and tense, irritable
• Pulled or drawn tight
• 'Tense, nervous (2,4)'
• Tense, stretched tight
• If perhaps the Dr was so nervous, it might help him to get to the bottom of the matter
• Tight in verbal form.
• Verbally uptight?
• Sounds as if one has learned not to be slack
• By the sound of it, what one may be at school, but not in any loose sense (4)
• Verbally uptight
• XXXE, perhaps, just for a present, for instance
• Tight in verbal form
• Not so slack in any verbal way
• Ioxe up tight?
• Uptight in verbal form