Related Clues:

• Short account retained by Colin craftily
• Compact found in Battersea
• Do in non-professional — in a few words
• Concise - terse
• Terse - can coil (anag)
• Crisp and brief
• Col Cain (anag) — expressed in a few words
• Far from talkative
• Short and sharp
• Crisp
• Saying little of the congregation admitting scam
• Adhering to Strunk and White's advice 'Omit needless words'
• Curtly brief
• Foreign article on trick I see is brief
• Lecturer, a figure in mathematics, brief and to the point