Related Clues:

• Shore bird, tangle
• Tangle with granny?
• Inflamed lesion
• Negative-sounding tie?
• Sore, but pulls clear to reduce the odds
• Initially unpleasant lesion could erupt rapidly
• Bird's speed
• Snipe-like bird of sandpiper family
• Continuing source of pain, evil or corruption
• Granny perhaps hit back
• Get connected with granny, perhaps? Not from what we hear
• Kilo -- measure of weight -- taken the wrong way as measure of speed
• Tension in belly and even parts of skin and mouth
• Speed of a ship steaming to tie up
• A ropy bird?