Related Clues:

• Having no play, say
• Frazzled
• Feeling nervous
• Sans slack
• In need of a backrub
• Grammarian's subject
• Stretched just short of the breaking point
• Nerve-straining
• Past or present
• Stretched tightly
• Emotionally strained
• Sans any slack
• Full of angst
• The past, for example
• Tensed