Related Clues:

• Tense situation for example with fluid about to smother fuel
• Charge packed into keg in front of Dail, possibly causing such a critical situation
• Anchor containing two metals — that makes for a dangerous situation
• Keen, clear-cut incisiveness needed, in this position?
• Tense situation with meal in (say) black liquid sent back
• Rejecting fluid, take solids, say, back in precarious position
• Critical point in the development of a situation
• Not all of the cutlery is extremely sharp
• Sharp piece of steel serving as axis of a balance
• Cutting article's critical point
• Anchor retaining unusually fine balance
• Blade I push into monarch, one less battle, ultimately
• One's keen as a river rat heading west
• Nickel and iron in a thousand inch blade
• Tense situation, symbolically