% 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
Not as long
Less rambling
Not as wordy
More brusque
Not as involved
Not as windy
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