Related Clues:

• Strained, taut
• Pulled or drawn tight
• Tense, stretched tight
• 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
• In such verbal form one would be uptight
• Not relaxed verbally