Fife Free Press Prize Crossword

[Doog]

Help please on following clue 23 across

Ensured one had a nap standing up (6)

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Sensed perhaps ??

[puddicat]

Peesed sorry

[Catron]

Teased?

tease
vt to make fun of, to disconcert for one's own amusement; to plague, irritate, esp playfully, mischievously or unkindly; to arouse sexual desire in (someone) but refuse to satisfy it; to tantalize; to subject to banter; to open out the fibres of; to comb or card (wool, etc); to scratch (cloth) with teasels, so as to raise a nap; to raise a nap on; to back-comb (the hair).