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• Abrupt, monosyllabic
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• The grasses -- regularly cut short
• Saying little boy almost in shape for ice cream?
• Some after sex that's quick
• Extract from screenwriter, seriously short
• Abrupt or concise
• Brusquely short
• Snippy, in a way
• Linguistically sparing
• Not at all overly wordy, unlike this clue
• Copper right to be abrupt
• Like a one-word email
• Short and snippy
• Peter Sellers keeps to the point