Crossword Clue: Up-tight
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Matching Crossword Puzzle Answers for "Up-tight"
Below is the complete list of answers we found in our database for Up-tight:
Possibly related crossword clues for "Up-tight"
Based on the answers listed above, we also found some clues that are possibly similar or related to Up-tight:
- 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 Up-tight in Crossword Puzzles
We track a lot of different crossword puzzle providers to see where clues like "Up-tight" have been used in the past.
Here are all of the places we know of that have used Up-tight in their crossword puzzles recently:
- New York Times - Jan. 11, 1987
- New York Times - March 7, 1985
- New York Times - April 1, 1984
- New York Times - Nov. 30, 1983
- New York Times - May 12, 1983
- New York Times - June 5, 1981
- New York Times - June 10, 1979
- New York Times - May 13, 1978
- New York Times - March 11, 1978
- New York Times - Nov. 17, 1977
