TENSE

Like late-inning tie ballgames

• 1979 album by The Shoes Present ___

• 1979 Shoes album Present ___

• A bundle of nerves

• A nervous rocker is this

• All keyed up

• All wound up

• Anxiety-ridden

• Anxious

• Apt to snap

• Bill's error gets you on edge (5)

• Brace, in a way

• Can be past or present

• Can be past present or future

• Clenched, say

• Cliff-hanging

• Close to cracking

• Conditional, for one

• Drama-filled

• Dramatic

• Drawn tight

• Edgy

• English 101 subject

• English class topic

• Ex-lax?

• Far from laid-back

• Far from loosey-goosey

• Far from relaxed

• Feeling antsy

• Feeling edgy

• Feeling nervous

• Feeling on edge

• Feeling the pressure

• Fidgety

• Form of a verb

• Fraught with anxiety

• Full of angst

• Full of drama

• Full of suspense

• Future or past

• Future perfect, for one

• Future, e.g.

• Future, for one

• Grammar class subject

• Grammar subject

• Grammarian's concern

• Grammarian's topic

• Grammatical time setter

• Hardly at ease

• Hardly relaxed

• High-strung

• How someone reading a thriller might feel

• In a knot

• In a nervous state

• In danger of snapping

• In knots

• In need of a backrub

• In need of a chill pill

• In need of a massage

• In need of a massage, maybe

• In need of a massage, perhaps

• In need of a rubdown

• In need of relaxing

• In need of shiatsu

• It can be past or present

• It can be past or present, in grammar

• It concerns the past, sometimes

• It may be past

• It may be past, present, or future

• It may be perfect

• It may be perfect in the future

• It may be present

• It might be past

• Itchy, in a way

• Jittery

• Jumpy

• Keyed up

• Knotted up

• Lacking looseness

• Lacking slack

• Language study topic

• Like a close game, usually

• Like a game overtime

• Like a Hitchcock audience, typically

• Like a tie game in overtime

• Like Ditka in overtime

• Like fans in a close game

• Like final-round atmosphere

• Like many a massage client

• Like overtime games

• Like some contract negotiations

• Like some negotiations

• Like sudden-death playoffs

• Like the 1975 World Series

• Like the atmosphere during a playoff hole

• Linguist's subject

• Nail-biting

• Needing a massage

• Needing a massage, say

• Needing kneading

• Needing kneading, maybe

• Needing to chill out

• Nerve-racking

• Nerve-straining

• Nerve-wracked

• Nervous

• Not at all relaxed

• Not calm

• Not easy

• Not loosey-goosey

• Not relaxed

• Not slack

• Noun concerning verbs

• On a tightrope

• On edge

• On pins and needles

• On tenterhooks

• On the verge of snapping

• Overstrung

• Past condition?

• Past or future

• Past or future, e.g.

• Past or imperfect

• Past or present

• Past perfect

• Past perfect, e.g.

• Past perfect, for one

• Past present or future

• Past subject for an English class?

• Past, for instance

• Past, for one

• Perfect or past

• Perfect, e.g.

• Perfect, for one

• Pluperfect for one

• Pluperfect, e.g.

• Present ___

• Present or past

• Present or perfect

• Present, e.g.

• Present, for example

• Present, for example, in English class

• Present, for one

• Ready to snap

• Restive

• Rigid

• Showing strain

• Stiff

• Strained

• Straining at the leash

• Stressed

• Stressed out

• Stressful

• Stretched tight

• Strung out

• Suspenseful

• Taut

• Taut characteristic of verbs (5)

• Temporal language element

• The past, for example

• Tied up in knots

• Tight

• Tighten (up)

• Tightly wound

• Time indicator

• Topic in grammar class

• Unable to relax

• Unable to speak, perhaps

• Under pressure

• Under strain

• Under stress

• Uptight

• Verb category that specifies time, such as past, present or future

• Verb form

• Walking on eggshells

• What a will, e.g., may indicate?

• Wired

• Wired up

• Wound up

• A grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time