| Tightly-strung | 14 |
| Tight, as a drum skin | 21 |
| Tension-filled | 14 |
| Subjected to great tension | 26 |
| Strung with tension | 19 |
| Strung tight | 12 |
| Stretched thin | 14 |
| Stretched just short of the breaking point | 42 |
| Spy-movie review adjective | 26 |
| Slackless | 9 |
| Playless? | 9 |
| Not loose or flabby | 19 |
| Not at all redundant | 20 |
| Not at all droopy | 17 |
| Like violin strings | 19 |
| Like many a thriller | 20 |
| Like guitar strings, often | 26 |
| Like concise writing | 20 |
| Like a tuned string | 19 |
| Like a tuned piano string | 25 |
| Like a tuned guitar string | 26 |
| Like a tuned drumhead | 21 |
| Like a tug-of-war rope | 22 |
| Like a tightrope | 16 |
| Like a fan belt | 15 |
| Kind of ship | 12 |
| Having no play, say | 19 |
| Having little give | 18 |
| Good descriptor for a thriller | 30 |
| Fully extended | 14 |
| Fully drawn | 11 |
| Concise and controlled | 22 |
| Allowing no wiggle room | 23 |
| Allowing no play | 16 |
| Take up the slack | 17 |
| Remove the slack | 16 |
| Remove slack from | 17 |
| Take out the slack | 18 |
| Take out slack | 14 |
| Stretch tight | 13 |
| Strain, in a way | 16 |
| Give less slack | 15 |
| Get more rigid | 14 |
| Free of slack | 13 |
| Become tense | 12 |
| Took up the slack? | 18 |
| Took up the slack in | 20 |
| Made tight | 10 |
| Got rid of slack | 16 |
| Stretches tightly | 17 |
| Trims ropes on a ship | 21 |
| Stretches tight, as sails | 25 |
| Becomes unslack | 15 |
| Adds tension to | 15 |
| Less loose | 10 |
| More tightly stretched | 22 |
| More strained | 13 |
| More high-strung | 16 |
| Less slack | 10 |
| Overdrawn? | 10 |
| Not as slack | 12 |
| Not as lax | 10 |
| Having less slack | 17 |
| Creating more tension | 21 |
| Least loose | 11 |
| The most stretched | 18 |
| Most stretched | 14 |
| Most lacking slack | 18 |
| Having the least play | 21 |
| Having the least give | 21 |
| Furthest stretched | 18 |
| Not loosely | 11 |
| In a tense manner | 17 |
| Without any slack | 17 |
| With great tension | 18 |
| How tense words are spoken | 26 |
| Lack of slack | 13 |
| Strained condition | 18 |
| Degree of strain | 16 |
| Blackfish | 9 |
| Wrasse's cousin | 19 |
| Oysterfish | 10 |
| Edible wrasse fish | 18 |
| Needless repetition | 19 |
| Hanks' "Da Vinci Code" costar | 43 |
| Audrey of "The Da Vinci Code" | 39 |
| Audrey of "Amélie" | 31 |
| Feature of a crab ready to molt? | 32 |
| Last Hebrew letter | 18 |
| 23rd letter of the Hebrew alphabet | 34 |
| Twenty-third letter of the Hebrew alphabet | 42 |
| Torah's beginning? | 22 |
| Last letter of the Hebrew alphabet, similar to the letter T | 59 |
| Last letter of the Hebrew alphabet | 34 |
| Hebrew T | 8 |
| Hebrew letter after shin | 24 |
| Hebrew "T" | 20 |
| 23rd Hebrew letter | 18 |
| Twenty-third Hebrew letter | 26 |
| The 23rd Hebrew letter | 22 |