Related Clues:

• Nerve-wracking
• A present for one such, verbally
• To be drunk does not get one down but it makes one irritable
• Ten on the south-east
• Not down and drunk like 8 across
• 21 across is one such XXE, perhaps
• Is the present one
• Tight for a present, for instance
• Taut to be so for the present, for instance
• On one's feet, though drunk and irritable
• This may be a present that makes one tight
• 'Tense at the Border (2,4)'
• Taught to sound verbal?
• Sounds like what teacher did to get tight
• Tight to a verbal extent