Possible Clues:

• Contract made in a card game
• A newly-wed secures good contract
• Make short work of a link between banks
• A game in which players bid to make contract
• With 16-Across, Division division * Cut
• Shorten a building's front elevation
• Edit substantially
• Contract could put ferryman out of business
• Condense, summarise
• One attracted to card game shows how to cut