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• Short, but probably not sweet
• Unlike a 17-Across
• Like tweets
• Concise in wording
• Cover ... or cover ___
• Like Calvin Coolidge
• Far from long-winded
• Economical in words
• He said: if I bring my army into your land, I will destroy you; they said: 'if' - it's an example of a pithy reply
• Austerity measure covering end of year, in short
• Saying little on purpose
• Term often applied to Hemingway
• Succinctly put
• Tersely spoken
• The grasses are oddly clipped