Related Clues:

• Present, for example
• Language study topic
• Opposite of loose
• Short-fused
• Perfect, e.g.
• Stretched tight
• Not drooping
• Past or future, e.g.
• Wound-up
• Concise and controlled
• Like a Hitchcock audience, typically
• Like guitar strings
• Easily upset
• In a bad mood
• Future or past