Crossword Clue: Tense
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Matching Crossword Puzzle Answers for "Tense"
Below is the complete list of answers we found in our database for Tense:
Possibly related crossword clues for "Tense"
Based on the answers listed above, we also found some clues that are possibly similar or related to Tense:
- A bundle of nerves
- A little anxious
- A little "out there," as humor
- A long way from composed
- Antsy
- Anxious
- Anxiously impatient
- Apprehensive
- Apt to snap
- About to snap
- Artistically provocative
- Artistically unconventional
- Atwitter
- Avant-garde
- All hyped up
- All keyed up
- All nerves
- All tensed up
- All wound up
- Boldly innovative
- Boldly original
- Boldly provocative
- Boldly unconventional
- Bordering on offensive, as humor
- Hip
- Boundary-pushing, like some modern art
- Boundary-pushing
- Irascible
- Irritable and touchy
- Irritable
- Easily rankled
- Complimentary adjective for a comedian
- Breaking new ground, artistically speaking
- Feeling anxious
- Feeling nervous
- Feeling tense
- Fidgeting
- Fidgety
- Eliciting nervous laughter, say
- Controversial
- Convention-defying
- Hardly calm or cool
- Get well
- Envelope-pushing
- Having butterflies
- Having the jitters, perhaps
- Having the jitters
- Ill at ease
- Impatient and anxious
- Impatient
- In a tense state
- Jittery
- Experiencing jitters
- Experimental and avant-garde
- Exploring the bounds of propriety, as humor
- Jumpy
- High-strung
- Innovative and daring
- Highly strung
- Like challenging art
- Like comedy that pushes the envelope
- Provocative, as humor
- Provocative
- Provocatively chic
- Provocatively innovative
- Provocatively original
- Provocatively stylish
- Provocatively unconventional
- Like envelope-pushing comedy
- Like fringe festival fare
- Like fringe festival offerings
- Like hip ads
- Risk-taking
- Like humor that pushes boundaries
- Risqué, maybe
- Risqué, say
- Risqué
- Like indie crosswords (we hope)
- Like indie films, often
- Like many an independent film
- Keyed up
- Like many HBO shows
- Out there, humorwise
- Out there, in pop culture
- Out there
- Like much prestige television
- Touchy
- Touchy and sensitive
- Touchy or sensitive
- Like outsider art
- Like performance art, often
- Like Richard Pryor's humor
- Pushing boundaries
- Pushing conventional limits
- Pushing the boundaries of propriety
- Pushing the bounds of propriety
- Pushing the bounds of taste
- Pushing the envelope
- Stressed out
- Overly caffeinated
- Very nervous
- Overstrung
- Overwrought
- Sharply defined
- Like some modern filmmaking
- Like some performance art
- Pacing, perhaps
- Like tense image
- Like the comedy of Andy Kaufman
- Somewhat anxious
- Likely to offend some people
- Likely to snap
- Quick-tempered
- Quick to snap, say
- Wired on caffeine, perhaps
- Wired
- Offbeat and innovative
- Trend-setting
- Trendsetting
- Trés avant-garde
- Sort of avant garde
- Walking on eggshells
- Raw-nerved
- On pins and needles
- On tenterhooks
- Neither calm nor collected
- Neither cool nor collected
- Nervous and irritable
- Nervous and worried
- Nervous
- Nervously irritable
- New-fangled
- Liable to snap
- Restive
- Not at all calm
- Like a bundle of nerves
- Not mainstream, in a way
- Not mainstream
- Propriety-challenging
- Like art that pushes boundaries
- Like avant-garde art
- Like bad boy image
- Showing strain
- Twitchy
- Ultra-innovative
- Unable to sit still
- Wound up
- Unconventional
- Unconventionally provocative
- Skittish
- Uncool?
- Uneasy
- Up-tight
- Uptight
- Snappish.
- Snappish
- Tending to push the envelope too far
- Tense and irritable
- Tense or irritable
- Tense
Recent Usage of Tense in Crossword Puzzles
We track a lot of different crossword puzzle providers to see where clues like "Tense" have been used in the past.
Here are all of the places we know of that have used Tense in their crossword puzzles recently:
- Evening Standard Quick - Sept. 10, 2020
- Washington Post Sunday Magazine - Sept. 6, 2020
- Penny Dell - Aug. 15, 2020
- WSJ Daily - July 25, 2020
- Penny Dell - July 7, 2020
- Penny Dell Sunday - June 14, 2020
- WSJ Daily - June 12, 2020
- WSJ Daily - April 28, 2020
- WSJ Daily - March 20, 2020
- Evening Standard - Dec. 13, 2019
- Penny Dell - Sept. 4, 2019
- Penny Dell - July 30, 2019
- WSJ Daily - April 29, 2019
- Penny Dell - Feb. 1, 2019
- WSJ Daily - Jan. 31, 2019
- The Puzzle Society - Dec. 6, 2018
- Evening Standard Quick - Nov. 27, 2018
- Penny Dell - Oct. 9, 2018
- The Guardian Quick - Aug. 25, 2018
- The Puzzle Society - March 10, 2018
