Crossword clues - Answer
TENSE
TENSE is a 5-letter crossword answer with 15 clues in this collection. Across those clues it has 861 usages in the xd corpus, most recently in 2026. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself.
The answer
TENSE
TENSE
5Letters
15Clues in collection
861Combined xd usages
2026Most recent year
Combined usages add the xd usage counts of every clue below. Frequency figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Every clue for TENSE in this collection
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- On edge - used 158 times across 47 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- Uptight - used 125 times across 36 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- High-strung - used 96 times across 42 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- Keyed up - used 72 times across 28 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- Wound up - used 57 times across 27 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- Nervous - used 50 times across 29 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- Jittery - used 47 times across 28 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- Past, present or future - used 41 times across 19 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- Not relaxed - used 39 times across 20 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- Past or present - used 38 times across 28 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- All wound up - used 34 times across 22 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- Taut - used 33 times across 25 distinct years, most recently in 2020
- Edgy - used 24 times across 14 distinct years, most recently in 2023
- On pins and needles - used 24 times across 19 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- Verb form - used 23 times across 18 distinct years, most recently in 2025
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