% replaces any number of letters (la% - lake, lamp)_ replaces one letter (ca_ - car, cat)

Other crossword clues for answer "TERSER"

TERSER
More concise
More succinct
More to the point
More compact
Less loquacious
Not so verbose
Using fewer words
More pithy
Less wordy
Like a better sermon, some say
More like "War and Peace"... not!
Like better speeches, to some
Less rambling
Not as wordy
More brusque
Not as involved
Not as windy
More like a saw?
Tighter
Less inclined to ramble
Clipped to a greater extent
Less verbose
Less likely to ramble
Less long-winded
Less windy
Comparatively compact
Rambling less
Less prolix.
Sententiously more concise.
Shorter
Not so prolix
More laconic
More compendious
More apothegmatic
Comparatively clipped
Not as long-winded
Like Hemingway vis-à-vis most other writers
More short
Less long
More blunt and to the point
Briefer
More breviloquent
Less lengthy
Knowledgeable