Referring Clues

• On pins and needles
• Tense
• Irascible
• Irritable
• Wired
• Nervously irritable
• Stressed out
• Nervous
• Like hip ads
• Uptight
• Like some modern filmmaking
• Jittery
• Fidgeting
• Avant-garde
• Pushing the envelope
• On tenterhooks
• All nerves
• High-strung
• Easily rankled
• Intense
• Trend-setting
• Hardly cool
• Antsy
• Anxious
• Boldly provocative
• Atwitter
• Envelope-pushing
• Sharply defined
• Like many an independent film
• Not mainstream
• Uncool?
• Unconventionally provocative
• Daring, in a way
• Trendsetting
• Provocative
• About to snap
• Like a bundle of nerves
• Unconventional
• All wound up
• Feeling tense
• Pacing, perhaps
• Impatient and anxious
• Having butterflies
• Skittish
• Showing strain
• Experiencing jitters
• Innovative and daring
• Nervous and worried
• Jumpy
• Apt to snap
• Ill at ease
• Restless
• Like performance art, often
• Likely to offend some people
• New-fangled
• Fidgety
• Apprehensive
• Boundary-pushing
• Hardly calm or cool
• Daring
• Bold and provocative
• A little "out there," as humor
• Keyed up
• Out there, in pop culture
• Exploring the bounds of propriety, as humor
• Get well
• Not at all calm
• Neither cool nor collected
• Pushing the boundaries of propriety
• Like avant-garde art
• Touchy
• Overly caffeinated
• Boldly unconventional
• Tense and irritable
• Fretful
• Liable to snap
• Boldly innovative
• Risqué, say
• Touchy or sensitive
• Feeling nervous
• Uneasy
• Like envelope-pushing comedy
• Touchy and sensitive
• Tense or irritable
• All tensed up
• Pushing conventional limits
• Risqué, maybe
• Like fringe festival fare
• Very nervous
• In a tense state
• A long way from composed
• Eliciting nervous laughter, say
• Like comedy that pushes the envelope
• Irritable and touchy
• Wired on caffeine, perhaps
• Convention-defying
• Controversial
• All keyed up
• Snappish
• Up-tight
• Unable to sit still
• Anxiously impatient
• Not at all serene
• Like bad boy image
• Like tense image
• Overstrung
• Nervous and at the forefront of fashion
• Sort of bordering on tense
• Somewhat under­prepared, gymnast nervous
• Extremely nervous
• Not mainstream, in a way
• Provocatively stylish
• Daringly innovative
• Nervous? Extremely so!
• Daringly original
• Like many HBO shows
• Like Richard Pryor's humor
• Breaking new ground, artistically speaking
• Quick-tempered
• Twitchy
• Extremely irritable?
• Approached gym, somewhat ill at ease
• Worried gymnast, somewhat nervous
• Trendsetting makes one nervous
• Wound up
• Artistically provocative
• Out there, humorwise
• Restless and nervous
• Somewhat anxious
• Offbeat and innovative
• Nervous and antsy
• Easily upset
• Restless and irritable
• Provocatively original
• Nervous characters in crowded gym
• Pushing boundaries
• Avant-garde clothes taken from excited guy
• All hyped up
• Walking on eggshells
• A bundle of nerves
• Overwrought
• Skittish and nervous
• Neither calm nor collected
• Risque
• Out there
• Restless and full of coffee
• Having the jitters
• Feeling anxious
• Boldly original
• On pins and needles; nervously irritable
• Marginally nervous
• Restive
• Calm? Oh no.
• Pushing the bounds of propriety
• Very nervous and excited
• Ultra-innovative
• Provocatively innovative
• Provocative, as humor
• Pushing the bounds of taste
• Quick to snap, say
• Apparently having the jitters
• Marginally nervous?
• Not at all cool
• Norm-challenging
• Very nervous and fidgety
• Touchy, sensitive
• Unconventional, maybe
• Jumping at the slightest little sound
• Boldly experimental
• All wound up and jittery
• Experimental, say
• Nervous and fidgety
• Provocative ... like this answer's position in the grid?
• Intentionally controversial
• Pushing the envelope, so to speak
• Not relaxed
• Experiencing jitters and nervousness
• On the cutting age
• Provocatively experimental
• U-turn from calm
• Groundbreaking
• Like provocative art
• Intentionally provocative
• Purposefully provocative
• Restless and uptight
• Testing humor's boundaries
• With just a bit of spice
• Pushing against a boundary ... like this answer?