Referring Clues

• Short-winded
• Short and maybe sweet
• Not windy
• Clipped
• Brusque
• Antisesquipedalian
• Elliptical
• To the point
• Pauciloquent
• Like headlines
• Breviloquent
• Not going on
• Hardly prolix
• Like Coolidge's utterances
• Succinct
• Not wordy
• Not at all windy
• In headlinese, say
• Hardly wordy
• Abrupt
• Concise
• Not wandering
• Hardly sesquipedalian
• Not saying much
• Short and maybe not sweet
• Far from windy
• Brief
• Unpadded
• Short and often not sweet
• Curt
• Not at all garrulous
• Short and sweet
• Pithy
• Not verbose
• Sparing of words
• Neither wordy, verbose, longwinded, loquacious, nor like this clue
• Certainly not verbose
• By no means long-winded
• Succinctly worded
• Laconic
• Hardly chatty
• Adjective for Calvin Coolidge's comments
• Not drawn out
• Like aphorisms
• Far from prolix
• Brief and pithy
• Not inclined to go on
• Hardly long-winded
• Short
• Hardly gabby
• Far from flowery
• Not garrulous
• Of few words
• Brief and to the point
• Briefly stated
• Wasting no words
• Using few words
• Shortwinded
• No-nonsense
• Not rambling
• Not roundabout
• Right to the point
• Without wasting words
• Effectively concise
• Compendious
• Short and snappy
• Short and to the point
• Without elaboration
• Low on word count
• Not chatty
• To-the-point
• Brief in speech
• Hardly talkative
• Short and to-the-point
• Hardly loquacious
• Short-spoken
• Like the review "Hated it," e.g.
• Unlike filibusters
• Short on words
• Far from verbose
• Like Coolidge, famously
• Not flowery
• Hardly windy
• Far from wordy
• Without any embroidery
• Quick and to the point
• Like Hemingway's prose
• Not very vocal
• Far from loquacious
• Compact
• Far from ioquacious
• Far from diffuse
• Unwordy
• Like telegrams, typically
• Rudely brief
• Laconic
• Short and direct
• Not long-winded
• Not longwinded
• Hardly wandering
• Adhering to Strunk and White's advice "Omit needless words"
• Without wasted words
• Far from talkative
• Like tweets, by necessity
• Elliptical, in a way
• Concise in speech
• Succinct in speech
• Short and probably not sweet
• Hardly rambling
• Coldly brief
• Crisp
• Epigrammatic
• Monosyllabic, perhaps
• Like one-word answers
• Hardly verbose
• As in a nutshell
• In a nutshell
• Not very chatty
• Briefly worded
• Not at all wordy
• Like some reprimands
• Like newspaper headlines, typically
• Like the answer "No."
• Facetious response to "Describe yourself in three adjectives"
• Not overly vocal
• Short, but probably not sweet
• Unlike a 17-Across
• Like tweets
• Concise in wording
• Brief; abrupt
• Like Calvin Coolidge
• Far from long-winded
• Economical in words
• Saying little on purpose
• Term often applied to Hemingway
• Succinctly put
• Short and not so sweet
• Pointed
• Briefly worded, like a tweet
• Short letters from Battersea
• Pithy part for Peter Sellers
• Concise, pithy
• Short and sweet, as speeches go
• Not very wordy
• Like one-word responses
• Curtly brief
• Curt - abrupt
• Short version of the previous answer
• Snappy contribution to better service
• Short cut from Battersea!
• Brief winter season - victory a boy delivered
• Short time before eating seconds
• Compact part of Battersea
• Crisp and brief
• Extract from chapter seen to be concise
• Short and sharp
• Efficiently worded
• Like this clue
• Worded like a telegram
• Compact found in Battersea
• Compact arrangement of trees
• Abrupt, curt
• Trees cut short
• Curt, concise
• Short extract from Chapter Seven
• Not long retired back to Home Counties
• During winter, sex is brief!
• Brusque, concise
• The grasses are oddly clipped
• Short of some computer services
• Brusque, certain characters in Battersea
• In first of teasers, language is concise
• Curt, in sister's estimation
• Quartermaster-sergeant, somewhat brusque
• Crisply brief, language used after beginning to taxi
• Brusque, in sister's estimation
• Abrupt arbiter settled cases
• Clipped end of secret language
• Brief contribution to better service
• Brief, like many tweets
• Concise quotation from a better selection
• Worded concisely
• Concisely worded
• Steer the short way
• Short cut out of Battersea
• Brief, like a tweet
• Brief in one's words
• Short, concise and to the point (unlike this clue)
• Neatly concise
• Short part of Easter sermon
• Verbally sparing
• Free of superfluity
• Brief encountered in quarter sessions
• Short sleeves retained, partially turned up
• Saying little
• Short way to chop trees
• Opposite of verbose
• Without any unnecessary proliferation of verbiage
• Lacking in detail
• Like one-word replies
• Abrupt, monosyllabic
• Snippy, in a way
• Not at all overly wordy, unlike this clue
• A short time before Gaelic came to be
• Wasting few words
• Brief rest, perhaps, for an egghead
• Like a one-word email
• Most definitely dissimilar to this clue
• Quick and straight to the point
• Sparingly worded
• Cut short
• Not given to speeches
• In few words
• Short and blunt
• Economical with words
• Snappy rendition of 'Trees'
• Like the responses of "yes" or "no"
• Straight to the point
• Hardly flowery
• Like a one-word reply
• Hardly windy?
• At a loss for words?
• In Battersea but not for long