Anxious struggle to get wife off ship (8)
I believe the answer is:
restless
'anxious' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'struggle to get wife off ship' is the wordplay.
I cannot really see how this works, but
'ship' could be 'ss' and 'ss' is found in the answer.
This may be the basis of clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for restless that I've seen before include "Never still" , "Fidgety, uneasy" , "Fidgetty" , "Unsettled, fidgety" , "Unable to sit still" .)