| Short for one in disguise | 25 |
| Short for some muscles | 22 |
| Short form of Elizabeth | 23 |
| Short fuse, so to speak | 23 |
| Short girl at a society ball? | 29 |
| Short greeting with a nod | 25 |
| Short hike for a beginner? | 26 |
| Short hit, in baseball | 22 |
| Short hole on a course | 22 |
| Short hours of operation? | 25 |
| Short intakes of breath | 23 |
| Short Internet message | 22 |
| Short intro for Al Sharpton | 27 |
| Short jackets for boys | 22 |
| Short jackets for women | 23 |
| Short journalistic addendum | 27 |
| Short kicks in football | 23 |
| Short lengthy lunches? | 22 |
| Short life in a library | 23 |
| Short Line and others: Abbr. | 28 |
| Short line holding a fishhook | 29 |
| Short lines at a store: Abbr. | 29 |
| Short lines at checkout? | 24 |
| Short lines for fishhooks | 25 |
| Short lines in the E.R.? | 24 |
| Short literary sketches | 23 |
| Short liturgical prayer | 23 |
| Short Maryland athlete? | 23 |
| Short medical procedures? | 25 |
| Short message via AOL, say | 26 |
| Short musical composition | 25 |
| Short musical selection | 23 |
| Short name for a bunny man | 26 |
| Short narrative or tale | 23 |
| Short New Testament event? | 26 |
| Short newspaper notice | 22 |
| Short of cash, informally | 25 |
| Short on bread, maybe? | 22 |
| Short or long, in phonetics | 27 |
| Short order at Starbucks? | 25 |
| Short order at the diner | 24 |
| Short order at the diner? | 25 |
| Short order cook's tool | 27 |
| Short order in a diner | 22 |
| Short order order, for short | 28 |
| Short order, for short | 22 |
| Short order, often with mayo | 28 |
| Short orders, for short | 23 |
| Short outing for a jogger | 25 |
| Short passage of Scripture | 26 |
| Short pastoral poem (Var.) | 26 |
| Short people might write them | 29 |
| Short period of forgetfulness | 29 |
| Short period of Navy duty | 25 |
| Short person's offering? | 28 |
| Short person's request? | 27 |
| Short person's savior? | 26 |
| Short person's slip? | 24 |
| Short personal histories | 24 |
| Short personal profiles | 23 |
| Short piece for the stage | 25 |
| Short piece of a pencil | 23 |
| Short piece of bar steel | 24 |
| Short poem about nature | 23 |
| Short poem on two rhymes | 24 |
| Short pooch, for short | 22 |
| Short postmortem biog. | 22 |
| Short prayer of penitence | 25 |
| Short publicity notice | 22 |
| Short race distance, briefly | 28 |
| Short race distance, perhaps | 28 |
| Short role for Harrison | 23 |
| Short round of tennis, maybe | 28 |
| Short sermon conclusion | 23 |
| Short short-order order | 23 |
| Short shorthand writer? | 23 |
| Short skirt, for short | 22 |
| Short skirts from overseas? | 27 |
| Short smoke, in slanguage | 25 |
| Short songs for groups | 22 |
| Short songs for Scotto | 22 |
| Short songs for sopranos | 24 |
| Short stack server, for short | 29 |
| Short stack spot, for short | 27 |
| Short stories akin to fables | 28 |
| Short stories they're not | 29 |
| Short story character? | 22 |
| Short story collections | 23 |
| Short story's big brother | 29 |
| Short straw drawer, e.g. | 24 |
| Short stretch of track | 22 |
| Short stretches of track | 24 |
| Short stringed instrument | 25 |
| Short swamp creatures? | 22 |
| Short sword of Borneo | 22 |
| Short tabloid subjects | 22 |
| Short tale of adventure | 23 |
| Short tales, from the Italian | 29 |
| Short test for brains? | 22 |
| Short theatrical sketch | 23 |