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• Thorpe's boundaries risked losing all, even being abrupt
• Short male escaping charge (electric primarily)
• Abrupt, monosyllabic
• Peter Sellers somewhat brusque?
• The grasses -- regularly cut short
• 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
• Brief and clear
• Like a one-word email