| Short-sleevers' due | 23 |
| Short-snouted pooch | 19 |
| Short-spoken | 12 |
| Short-stay motel franchise? | 27 |
| Short-story author Eudora | 25 |
| Short-story pen name | 20 |
| Short-story writer | 18 |
| Short-story writer Alfred __ | 28 |
| Short-story writer Alice | 24 |
| Short-story writer born H.H. Munro | 34 |
| Short-story writer Bret | 23 |
| Short-story writer known as Saki | 32 |
| Short-story writer Munro | 24 |
| Short-story writer Ring | 23 |
| Short-straw drawer | 18 |
| Short-straw drawers | 19 |
| Short-stroke golf club | 22 |
| Short-supply item, in a drought | 31 |
| Short-tailed Asian monkey | 25 |
| Short-tailed cat | 16 |
| Short-tailed dog | 16 |
| Short-tailed feline | 19 |
| Short-tailed lemur | 18 |
| Short-tailed lemurs | 19 |
| Short-tailed monkey | 19 |
| Short-tailed parrot | 19 |
| Short-tailed rodent | 19 |
| Short-tailed rodent from a Massachusetts college? | 49 |
| Short-tailed rodents | 20 |
| Short-tailed songbirds | 22 |
| Short-tailed weasel | 19 |
| Short-tailed wildcat | 20 |
| Short-tempered | 14 |
| Short-tempered one | 18 |
| Short-tempered ones | 19 |
| Short-tempered person | 21 |
| Short-tempered person's malady? | 35 |
| Short-tempered sort | 19 |
| Short-term | 10 |
| Short-term Arizona State employee? | 34 |
| Short-term auto rental company | 30 |
| Short-term employee | 19 |
| Short-term employment | 21 |
| Short-term funding source | 25 |
| Short-term govt. securities | 27 |
| Short-term helper | 17 |
| Short-term hire | 15 |
| Short-term hiree | 16 |
| Short-term instrument | 21 |
| Short-term investment, for short | 32 |
| Short-term items | 16 |
| Short-term letters | 18 |
| Short-term notes | 16 |
| Short-term office worker | 24 |
| Short-term quarters | 19 |
| Short-term relationship | 23 |
| Short-term residence, usually | 29 |
| Short-term securities, briefly | 30 |
| Short-term solution | 19 |
| Short-term solution, so to speak | 32 |
| Short-term staffer, for short | 29 |
| Short-term staffer, shortly | 27 |
| Short-term wheels | 17 |
| Short-term worker | 17 |
| Short-term worker who causes utter disaster? | 44 |
| Short-term worker, for short | 28 |
| Short-term workers | 18 |
| Short-term? | 11 |
| Short-time lodging | 18 |
| Short-track racing vehicle | 26 |
| Short-wave buff | 15 |
| Short-winded | 12 |
| Short-winged bird | 17 |
| Short-winged birds | 18 |
| Short-winged marsh bird | 23 |
| Short-yardage play | 18 |
| Short-___ | 9 |
| Short-___ (lasting only a little while) | 39 |
| Short-___ (of brief duration) | 29 |
| Short-___ (pranked in a way) | 28 |
| Short-___ cook | 14 |
| Short: Fr. | 10 |
| Short: Prefix | 13 |
| Short; abrupt | 13 |
| Shortage | 8 |
| Shortage in a rush-hour subway | 30 |
| Shortage in the cellar? (-Iron) | 31 |
| Shortage of punch | 17 |
| Shortage solvers | 16 |
| Shortages | 9 |
| Shortages in containers | 23 |
| Shortbread cookie surname | 25 |
| Shortbread flavorer | 19 |
| Shortcake item or Met star | 26 |
| Shortcake's dad, to Fonzie | 30 |
| Shortchange | 11 |
| Shortchanged | 12 |
| Shortchanges | 12 |
| Shortcircuits the ignition | 26 |
| Shortcoming | 11 |