Crossword Clue:

to get a hold on

Answer	Crossword Clue
RANG	Tried to get a hold of, in a way
TENTERHOOK	Nail to hold cloth stretched on a frame.
BLOWY	Like a day when it's hard to hold on to your hat

STAGESETS	Things to get a grip on?
EELLIKE	Hard to get a grip on
DEEP	Hard to get a handle on
ICE	It's hard to get a grip on
REACHOUTFOR	Try to get a grip on, perhaps
ELOPE	Act on a sudden itch to get hitched
EASE	A way to get on down the road?
FURL	Get ready to stow away on a sailboat?

CAFE	Where to get a bite on the street
VISE	What you might use to get a grip on something
SIXTYSIX	Route on which to "get your kicks," in a pop standard
SLOWBOATTOCHINA	"I'd love to get you on" one, in a Frank Loesser song
POLLTHEAUDIENCE	Get help of a sort on "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire"
NORETURN	What the Republicans reached a point of, or hoped to get based on their most common vote?
IMSORRYBUTTHE	Beginning of a private message that all the readers of the A.V. Club now get to listen in on
RAREST	Hardest to get hold of

RANG	Tried to get hold of
EELY	Tough to get hold of
RARE	Hard to get hold of