- Fasteners
- Simple earrings
- Small thing shut on and off
- Taut
- Anxious
- Anxious about being sent off east
- Anxious to flex muscles
- Become rigid
- Brace (oneself)
- Cliffhanging
- Contract specifies time for activity
- Close-fitting
- Close-run
- Constricted
- Firmly fixed
- Inebriated; parsimonious; constricting
- Mean to be strict
- Mean with money
- edgiest
- Most taut
- Most uptight