Related Clues:

• More company less willing to budge?
• A tree by the sea in France is better established
• More tightly stretched
• Not so flexible
• More high-strung
• Tree by lake chopped, but harder to uproot?
• Wood overlooking bottomless lake not so easy to penetrate?
• More rigid
• With business faltering, should be more dogged
• Stronger
• Stiffer
• Not as slack
• With less slack
• Less yielding, as a mattress
• Not as flabby