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• Tend to an ornery shoelace
• Adjust, as one's laces
• Fix, as a bowline
• Do this to your belt to economise (7)
• Make less loose
• Turn, a screw say
• Perhaps get drunk, but don't get loose
• One might get a giant taught like that, by the sound of it
• Do this to get one taught, by the sound of it
• Perhaps the way to make a giant, by the sound of it, drunk?
• It may be knotty work to make one footless
• 'Get one taught, by the sound of it (7)'
• Make stricter
• Do over, as a bow
• Adjust, as one's cravat