- TERSE
- Brusque
- Not mincing words
- Right to the point
- To the point
- Not windy
- Direct
- Concise
- Short and sweet
- Clipped
- Brief and to the point
- Succinct
- Pithy
- Laconic
- Using few words
- Epigrammatic
- Curt
- Short winded
- Opposite of prolix
- Like good sermons, some say
- Like "no comment"
- What it seems like you can't be if you're a big politician
- Short and to the point
- Lacking long-windedness
- Like Silent Cal
- Like an aphorism
- Without wasted words
- Of few words
- Not verbose
- Sparing of words
- Certainly not verbose
- Neither wordy, verbose, longwinded, loquacious, nor like this clue
- By no means long-winded
- Succinctly worded
- Adjective for Calvin Coolidge's comments
- Hardly chatty
- Hardly loquacious
- Hardly wordy
- Not inclined to go on
- Brief and pithy
- Far from loquacious
- Not very vocal
- Not long-winded
- Far from flowery
- Hardly verbose
- Far from verbose
- Short and snappy
- Succient
- Tactiturn
- Free of superfluity
- Brief
- Like aphorisms
- Compact
- Hardly windy
- Hardly gabby
- Hardly talkative
- Not wordy
- Not garrulous
- Short
- Hardly long-winded
- Hardly sesquipedalian
- Like Coolidge, famously
- Unlike filibusters
- Far from talkative
- Short and probably not sweet
- Like some reprimands
- Not likely to run on
- Not very chatty
- Short and not so sweet
- Wasting few words
- Not given to speeches
- Crisp
- Like a one-word reply
- Straight to the point
- Brief in speech
- Far from prolix
- Not quite elliptical
- Short-spoken
- Not at all wordy
- Hardly prolix
- Not roundabout
- Briefly stated
- Wasting no words
- Far from windy
- No-nonsense
- Not rambling
- Short on words
- Far from diffuse
- Not saying much
- Short and direct
- Concise in speech
- Succinct in speech
- Not at all talkative
- Briefly worded
- Concise in wording
- Economical in words
- Far from wordy
- Not overly vocal
- Term often applied to Hemingway
- Brief in one's words
- Worded concisely
- Saying few words
- Saying little
- Economically put
- Not at all windy
- Orally economical
- Brief in using words
- Not very long
- Compendious
- Like headlines
- Unverbose.
- Pithy; concise.
- Not prolix.
- Sententious.
- Sparely worded.
- Telegraphic.
- Unwordy.
- Cryptic.
- With no words wasted.
- Short and pithy
- Concentrated
- Polished
- Summary
- Pointed
- Lacking in detail
- Snippy, in a way
- Revision of 20 Across
- Very short
- Short and sharp
- Blunt
- Elliptical
- Succintly worded
- In telegraphese
- Short and maybe sweet
- Antisesquipedalian
- Pauciloquent
- Breviloquent
- Not going on
- Like Coolidge's utterances
- In headlinese, say
- Abrupt
- Not wandering
- Short and maybe not sweet
- Hardly garrulous
- Short and often not sweet
- Unpadded
- Not at all garrulous
- Not drawn out
- Like the review "Hated it," e.g.
- Not flowery
- Like Hemingway's prose
- Without any embroidery
- Adhering to Strunk and White's advice "Omit needless words"
- Hardly wandering
- Like telegrams, typically
- Elliptical, in a way
- Hardly rambling
- Like tweets, by necessity
- Like one-word answers
- Like newspaper headlines, typically
- Facetious response to "Describe yourself in three adjectives"
- Like Calvin Coolidge
- Like the answer "No."
- Like tweets
- Succinctly put
- Short, concise and to the point (unlike this clue)
- Opposite of verbose
- Cut short
- In few words
- Like one-word commands
- Hardly flowery
- Like the responses of "yes" or "no"
- Quick and to the point
- Like Calvin Coolidge, famously
- Sparingly worded
- Bluntly put
- Unlike most Jesse Jackson speeches
- Effectively concise
- As in a nutshell
- In a nutshell
- Without wasting words
- Monosyllabic, perhaps
- Saying little on purpose
- U-turn from verbose
- Like a one-word email
- Not at all overly wordy, unlike this clue
- Short, but probably not sweet
- Far from long-winded
- Most definitely dissimilar to this clue
- Unlike this clue, which is far too wordy and could have simply been just "curt"
- Like a one-word response to "How are you?"
- Economical wordwise
- Like one-word replies
- Low on word count
- Not chatty
- Without elaboration
- Briefly worded, like a tweet
- Brief, like a tweet
- Brief, like many tweets
- Efficiently expressed, maybe
- In telegraphese, e.g.
- Succinct, as sentences
- Hardly circumlocutious
- Like a two-word reply
- Verbally sparing
- Efficiently worded
- Without any unnecessary proliferation of verbiage
- Brusquely short
- Eschewing loquacity
- Sparing in speech
