- EDGY
- Wired
- Tense
- Like indie crosswords (we hope)
- Like much prestige television
- Boundary-pushing
- Experimental
- Like much of Prince's work
- What some awful comedians claim to be
- Trying to be provocative, say
- Pacing, perhaps
- Innovative and daring
- All wound up
- Like challenging art
- Likely to snap
- Risk-taking
- Stressed out
- Trés avant-garde
- Like outsider art
- Like the avant-garde
- High-strung
- Like avant-garde art
- Envelope-pushing
- Pushing the envelope
- Trendsetting
- Skittish
- Nervous
- Quick-tempered
- Provocative
- Avant-garde
- Approaching offensive
- Like some internet trolls
- Like Bill Burr's stand-up, often
- On pins and needles
- Uptight
- Impatient and anxious
- Easily rankled
- Intense
- Hardly cool
- Antsy
- Jittery
- Anxious
- Atwitter
- Sharply defined
- Boldly provocative
- Like many an independent film
- Nervously irritable
- Not mainstream
- Nervous and worried
- Keyed up
- Like a bundle of nerves
- On tenterhooks
- Propriety-challenging
- Hip
- Irritable
- Hardly calm
- Having butterflies
- Not cool at all
- About to snap
- Unconventional
- Tense and irritable
- Not at all calm
- Neither cool nor collected
- Liable to snap
- Like envelope-pushing comedy
- Pushing boundaries
- Neither calm nor collected
- Not at all cool
- Provocative, as humor
- Norm-challenging
- Unconventional, maybe
- Daring, in a way
- Groundbreaking
- Excitable
- Not at all serene
- Feeling tense
- Easily upset
- Anxiously impatient
- Uneasy
- Wound up
- All nerves
- Ill at ease
- All keyed up
- A long way from composed
- Feeling nervous
- Irascible
- Unable to sit still
- Boldly original
- Feeling anxious
- Having the jitters
- Restive
- A bundle of nerves
- Ultra-innovative
- A little nervous
- Worried
- Innovative and bold
- Provocative and unconventional
- Uncool?
- Daring
- Snappish.
- Ready to flare up.
- Touchy.
- Ready to fly off the handle.
- Sharp.
- Testy.
- See 7 Down.
- Short-tempered.
- See 53 Down.
- See 34 Down
- Impatient
- Raw-nerved
- Like hip ads
- Fidgeting
- Like some modern filmmaking
- Jumpy
- Unconventionally provocative
- Apprehensive
- Apt to snap
- A little "out there," as humor
- Exploring the bounds of propriety, as humor
- Pushing the boundaries of propriety
- Risqué, say
- Like fringe festival fare
- Pushing conventional limits
- Risqué, maybe
- Eliciting nervous laughter, say
- Out there
- Pushing the bounds of propriety
- Experimental, say
- Really out there, as humor
- Provocative ... like this answer's position in the grid?
- Not relaxed
- Pushing the envelope, so to speak
- New-fangled
- Like bad boy image
- Like tense image
- Like Slate, we like to think
- Showing some skin, say
- In drug rehab, perhaps
- Label for some experimental humor
- Pushing the envelope, artistically
- Bordering on offensive, perhaps
- Showing strain
- Having the jitters, perhaps
- Experiencing jitters
- Likely to offend some people
- Overly caffeinated
- Tense or irritable
- Touchy and sensitive
- Touchy or sensitive
- Controversial
- Irritable and touchy
- Walking on eggshells
- Risque
- Pushing the bounds of taste
- Quick to snap, say
- Appealing to hipsters, perhaps
- Bold and unconventional
- Unquiet
- Hardly calm or cool
- Boldly unconventional
- Fidgety
- All tensed up
- Convention-defying
- Like comedy that pushes the envelope
- Wired on caffeine, perhaps
- All hyped up
- Boldly experimental
- Intentionally controversial
- Provocatively experimental
- Like provocative art
- Like fringe festival offerings
- Like a gritty drama
- Restless
- Out there, in pop culture
- Provocatively stylish
- Boldly innovative
- Not mainstream, in a way
- Provocatively chic
- Daringly original
- Daringly innovative
- Provocatively original
- Like indie films, often
- Provocatively innovative
- Provocative, perhaps
- Pushing acceptable boundaries
