| Short time after midnight | 25 |
| Short time off to relax? | 24 |
| Short times, for short | 22 |
| Short undergarment, for short | 29 |
| Short verbal admonition | 23 |
| Short verse sung by a priest | 28 |
| Short version of Margaret | 25 |
| Short wavelength, for short | 27 |
| Short winter holidays? | 22 |
| Short wires for closing bags | 28 |
| Short women in Mexico? | 22 |
| Short word for a long car | 25 |
| Short ___ (little attention) | 28 |
| Short ___ (quick work) | 22 |
| Short ___ (summary treatment) | 29 |
| Short(little attention) | 23 |
| Short, as in a poker game | 25 |
| Short, close-fitting jacket | 27 |
| Short, descriptive poem | 23 |
| Short, detailed description | 27 |
| Short, fat pen filler? | 22 |
| Short, laudatory notice | 23 |
| Short, light musical piece | 26 |
| Short, light piece of music | 27 |
| Short, light prose work | 23 |
| Short, like a shotgun (Var.) | 28 |
| Short, madrigal-like lyric | 26 |
| Short, peaceful poem (Var.) | 27 |
| Short, projecting stump | 23 |
| Short, technical composition | 28 |
| Short, thickset horses | 22 |
| Short-antlered critter | 22 |
| Short-billed marsh bird | 23 |
| Short-billed merganser | 22 |
| Short-billed shorebird | 22 |
| Short-billed songbirds | 22 |
| Short-changed oneself, maybe? | 29 |
| Short-cropped hairstyle | 23 |
| Short-distance golf strokes | 27 |
| Short-haired cat breed | 22 |
| Short-haired house pet | 22 |
| Short-horned grasshopper | 24 |
| Short-horned grasshoppers | 25 |
| Short-legged cattle dog | 23 |
| Short-legged creatures | 22 |
| Short-legged dogs, for short | 28 |
| Short-legged pachyderm | 22 |
| Short-legged Welsh pooch | 24 |
| Short-legged, thick-set horse | 29 |
| Short-limbed, in a way | 22 |
| Short-lived 1765 statute | 24 |
| Short-lived 1800s govt. | 23 |
| Short-lived 1986 TV sitcom | 26 |
| Short-lived agitation? | 22 |
| Short-lived budget airline | 26 |
| Short-lived Bush nominee | 24 |
| Short-lived constructions | 25 |
| Short-lived diet, perhaps | 25 |
| Short-lived Ford model | 22 |
| Short-lived infatuation | 23 |
| Short-lived love affairs | 24 |
| Short-lived mail system | 23 |
| Short-lived preoccupation | 25 |
| Short-lived pro gridiron org. | 29 |
| Short-lived sculpture medium | 28 |
| Short-lived, charged lepton | 27 |
| Short-muzzled dog breed | 23 |
| Short-necked diving bird | 24 |
| Short-necked European fruit | 27 |
| Short-notice transporter | 24 |
| Short-order cook's aid | 26 |
| Short-order cook's need | 27 |
| Short-order cook's place | 28 |
| Short-order order, for short | 28 |
| Short-order order, in short | 27 |
| Short-sheeting a bed, e.g. | 26 |
| Short-sheeting and others | 25 |
| Short-sheeting and such | 23 |
| Short-sheeting, for example | 27 |
| Short-sleevers' due | 23 |
| Short-stay motel franchise? | 27 |
| Short-story author Eudora | 25 |
| Short-story writer Alfred __ | 28 |
| Short-story writer Alice | 24 |
| Short-story writer Bret | 23 |
| Short-story writer Munro | 24 |
| Short-story writer Ring | 23 |
| Short-stroke golf club | 22 |
| Short-tailed Asian monkey | 25 |
| Short-tailed songbirds | 22 |
| Short-term funding source | 25 |
| Short-term govt. securities | 27 |
| Short-term office worker | 24 |
| Short-term relationship | 23 |
| Short-term residence, usually | 29 |
| Short-term staffer, for short | 29 |
| Short-term staffer, shortly | 27 |
| Short-term worker, for short | 28 |
| Short-track racing vehicle | 26 |
| Short-winged marsh bird | 23 |