| STRESSFUL | Causing a state of mental or emotional strain or tension (9) |
| STRESS | A state of mental or emotional strain or suspense. (6) |
| MAELSTROM | Star mole abandoned by spymaster causing a state of confusion (9) |
| TREPIDATION | Terrible pirate into seizing diamonds causing a state of fear (11) |
| TENSION | State of mental or emotional strain (7) |
| ROTARIANS | Members of community service club showing strain or a worry (9) |
| OVEREXERT | Strain or work hard to a very great extent ? (9) |
| PRESSURES | Burdens of strain or pain (9) |
| BANDWIDTH | Mental or emotional capacity (9) |
| HORTENSIO | Shrew's connection shown in anguish or tension (9) |
| SEROTONIN | It stabilises mood in stress or tension (9) |
| STRESSED | Feeling mental or emotional strain (8) |
| BREED | Word, from "cherish, keep warm" and "hatch", for a lineage, pedigree, race, or strain; or, a class, kind or variety, such as the figuratively "dying" type in the form of a relatively rare sort (5) |
| STRESSES | Mental, emotional or physical strains or tensions (8) |
| TORPOR | State of mental or physical inactivity |
| TENSE | In a state of mental strain, past, present or future |
| INTENSE | Vehement in a state of mental strain |
| UNDERGO | Of mental or physical states or experiences. |
| UNREST | A state of civil disorder or tension (6) |
| TROUBLED | In a state of mental distress (8) |
