On pins and needles
The crossword clue "On pins and needles" is answered by TENSE, a 5-letter entry. Used 24 times across 19 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 11 publications in the xd corpus.
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TENSE
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the TENSE answer page.
Used 24 times across 19 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 11 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for TENSE
Every other clue in this collection answered by TENSE, most used first.
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- Wound up - used 57 times, most recently in 2026
- Nervous - used 50 times, most recently in 2026
- Jittery - used 47 times, most recently in 2026
- Past, present or future - used 41 times, most recently in 2026
- Not relaxed - used 39 times, most recently in 2026
- Past or present - used 38 times, most recently in 2026
- All wound up - used 34 times, most recently in 2026
- Taut - used 33 times, most recently in 2020
- Edgy - used 24 times, most recently in 2023
- Verb form - used 23 times, most recently in 2025
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