Related Clues:

• In a 12 across at not getting down to being drunk?
• Stand and be tense when you've had a little drink
• This may have you worried, but don't let it get you down and drunk
• This tense gets you out of bed one over the 17 down, by the sound of it
• When so tense, does the effect of alcohol not get you down?
• 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?
• This gives one the feeling that it's not still in the ale