| Clue | Length | Answer |
|---|---|---|
| pulled very tight | 4 letters | taut |
| ||
Likely related crossword puzzle clues
- Tense
- Stiff
- Stretched tight
- Strung tightly
- Lacking play
- Strained
- Tight
- Keyed up
- Unbending
- Unrelaxed
- Stretched
- Ex-lax?
- Drawn tight
- Tightly stretched
- Pulled tight
- Lacking slack
- Without wrinkles
- Unloose
- Like guitar strings
- Without slack
- Like a trampoline's surfa
- Stretched to the limit
- Fully stretched
- Suspenseful
- Tightly strung
- Tensed
- Tight as a drum
- Not slack
- Having no play
- Tightly drawn
- Tense, gave instruction in speech
- Soundly instructed, not slack
- Like school pupil sounding unrelaxed
- Showing strain
- Stretched when instructed, say
- Far from loose
- Loose antonym
- Like cello strings
- Full of tension
- like a good tennis net
- like piano strings
- Utterly wrong tens
- Opposite of slack
- well-disciplined, as a ship
- Having no give
- Like a rope in tug-of-war
- not at all slack
- stretched to the max
- Having no slack
- Jeer with any number leaving stressed
- pulled tightly, as a rope
- Under tension
- Like violin strings
- Stretched tight like a string
- Under strain during last autumn
- Slackless
- No slack
- stretched tightly
- Like a drumhead
- Lacking superfluity
- Tight, as a line
- Emotionally strained
- Like a trampoline's surface
- Ready to snap, maybe
- Like a rope during a tug-of-war match
- Like faces after face-lifts
- Like a guitar string
- Not relaxed
- Having little give
- Allowing no play
- Like some nerves
- Smart-......
- Like a tightrope
- Trim
- Snug
- Very tight
- Shipshape
- High-strung
- Well disciplined
- Like a high wire
- Showing stress
- Like a bowstring
- Not loose or flabby
- Firm
- Opposite of loose
- Rigid
- Wound up
- like a proper clothesline
- like a post-botox face
- Not loose
- Soundly instructed to get tight
- Like a tug-of-war rope
- pulled tight, as a clothesline
- nerve-wracking
- Stretched out
- Not hanging loose
- tense races to capture gold
- this strain exemplifies this ology
- pulled or drawn tight
- without any slack, as a clothesline
- Tight, like guitar strings
- Tutored in speech as not relaxed
- Tense, as is pupil in audition
- Stressed given coaching in voice
- Firmly stretched, as a tightrope
- Under stress in corrupt autocracy
- Opposite of relaxed
- Gave instruction in speech for tense
- like a well-executed thriller
- Tight; stretched
- Taught soundly, albeit under stress
- With no slack
- lacking slack, as a rope
- Stretched firm
- not on the loose, then?
- Tight, as a rope
- Filled with suspense
- Tightly drawn, as a rope
- For the audition, was the coach tense?
- Taught to be utterly tense
- very efficient, as a ship
- Like tightly stretched rope
- Speaker's educated and stiff
- to the point, as writing
- Taught to sound tense
- loudly instructed to be tight
- At a breaking point maybe
- tense instructed orally
- Having little slack
- stretched in a rising situation
- Soundly educated, not slack?
- Like a suspenseful thriller
- Like post-facelift skin
- Tightly stretched, tense
- Stretched thin
- like bass strings
- Homonym of taught
- With bated breath
- Pulled tight, as a rope
- far from slack
- like a rope during a tug-of-war
- Stretched or pulled tight
- Trained, it's said, to be very tight
- all ataunto
- Anxious
- Apprehensive
- ataunt
- bungup and bilge free
- Close
- Dragged out
- Drawn
- Drawn-out
- Elongated
- In suspense
- in trim
- Lengthened
- Neat
- On edge
- On tenterhooks
- on tiptoe
- Orderly
- pokerlike
- prolongated
- Prolonged
- Protracted
- Pulled
- Quivering
- ramrodlike
- renitent
- rodlike
- Spruce
- spun out
- Starched
- Starchy
- stiff as buckram
- straggling
- Strung out
- Tidy
- Trig
- Under a strain
- Uptight
- virgate
- with muscles tense
- greek character tense and stressed
- Stretched tightly, like a rope
- extended
- Free of slack
- reportedly instructed to be stretched
- pulled tight like a rope
- Announced wrong tense
- Like a tripwire
- reportedly instructed to be tense
- Like a tightrope, ideally
- Without any give
- stretched to its utmost
- taught soundly, albeit under a strain
- Clearly not relaxed
- stretched tight, like a drumhead
- pulled very tight
- tense is wrong in speech