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• Tight race to pocket gold
• Tense, as pupil is in audition
• Foreign letter ending used in present tense
• Shoot portrait painter's foot back inside
• Unwisely, in hindsight, Icarus was shot
• Took a class, we hear, without any slacking
• Tight; stretched
• Pulled broadcast of what lecturer did
• Like faces after face-lifts
• Like a rope during a tug-of-war match
• Like bowstrings
• Tense instructed orally
• Fire allowed to take off
• Filled with suspense
• Like a tuned string