Related Clues:

• Tighten up, possibly using a spanner
• A place where we'd find captain's contract
• Article by poet laureate cut short? Just so
• Shorten a structure across a river
• A game of tricks cut short
• To reduce work is good — admitted by a woman blushing?
• Something going too far in film? Cut!
• Make shorter, a book say
• Contract that makes a ferryman redundant?
• Make a long story short, e.g
• A part of the nose is cut
• A contest for couples holding hands cut short
• Cut in a card game
• Reduce in scope
• Reduce, as a text