Related Clues:

• Pithy Tory involved in false claim, endlessly
• 'Brief Encounter' secretly grips
• Short Californian inmate maybe, one foremost in criminality
• Brief's not professional confining jailbird
• Romeo making an entrance, cut short
• Short quarter-sections enclosed
• Terse conservative in US city in charge
• Terse; pithy
• Using few words, endlessly beat a prisoner inside
• Using few words repeatedly included by better setters, etc
• The French cheat in command -- that's not saying much
• Short half of bitter, then two quarters
• Short chapter selected shorn of trappings
• To be blunt, it's for chopping trees
• Not likely to run on