| Short-___ (of brief duration) | 29 |
| Short-___ (pranked in a way) | 28 |
| Shortages in containers | 23 |
| Shortbread cookie surname | 25 |
| Shortcake item or Met star | 26 |
| Shortcircuits the ignition | 26 |
| Shortcoming for a musician | 26 |
| Shortcut to a Web site | 22 |
| Shorten a bar mitzvah by 50%? | 29 |
| Shorten a Life sentence, say | 28 |
| Shorten again, as a skirt | 25 |
| Shorten again, as pants | 23 |
| Shorten again, perhaps | 22 |
| Shorten further, as a film | 26 |
| Shorten further, as hair | 24 |
| Shorten further, perhaps | 24 |
| Shorten in the cutting room | 27 |
| Shorten manuscripts, e.g. | 25 |
| Shorten or lengthen, say | 24 |
| Shorten sentences, perhaps | 26 |
| Shorten the sleeves on, e.g. | 28 |
| Shorten to fit, perhaps | 23 |
| Shorten, with "off" | 29 |
| Shortened a sentence, maybe | 27 |
| Shortened baseball official | 27 |
| Shortened form of a bk. | 23 |
| Shortened form of a wd. | 23 |
| Shortened form, for short | 25 |
| Shortened kind of flight | 24 |
| Shortened Latin catchall | 24 |
| Shortened term of endearment | 28 |
| Shortened version, for short | 28 |
| Shortened word of gratitude | 27 |
| Shortened word, for short | 25 |
| Shortened, as a ref. book | 25 |
| Shortened, like a dict. | 23 |
| Shortened, like this answer? | 28 |
| Shortened-sentence recipient | 28 |
| Shortening alternative | 22 |
| Shortening brand since 1911 | 27 |
| Shortening for dieters | 22 |
| Shortening for pie-making | 25 |
| Shortening in cookie recipes | 28 |
| Shortening in recipes? | 22 |
| Shortening in the kitchen? | 26 |
| Shortening of a syllable | 24 |
| Shortening used in recipes | 26 |
| Shortening used in recipes? | 27 |
| Shortenings, for short | 22 |
| Shortens a sentence, maybe | 26 |
| Shortens a sentence, perhaps | 28 |
| Shortens again, as a board | 26 |
| Shortens with scissors | 22 |
| Shortest Beatles surname | 24 |
| Shortest book in the O.T. | 25 |
| Shortest continent, in a way | 28 |
| Shortest distance flier? | 24 |
| Shortest iron, in golf | 22 |
| Shortest month (Abbr.) | 22 |
| Shortest month, in a way | 24 |
| Shortest of the 12 (Abbr.) | 26 |
| Shortest Old Testament book | 27 |
| Shortest way around the track | 29 |
| Shortest way to get there | 25 |
| Shortest-named Bond film | 24 |
| Shortest-named continent | 24 |
| Shortest-named element | 22 |
| Shortest-named Greek vowel | 26 |
| Shortest-named spectrum hue | 27 |
| Shortest-named zodiac sign | 26 |
| Shortfin or longfin predator | 28 |
| Shorthand expert, for short | 27 |
| Shorthand for burglary: B ___ | 29 |
| Shorthand for the contrite? | 27 |
| Shorthand for the shocked | 25 |
| Shorthand inventor Pitman | 25 |
| Shorthand on a business card | 28 |
| Shorthand pro, for short | 24 |
| Shorthand system inventor | 25 |
| Shorthand taker, for short | 26 |
| Shorthand writer, for short | 27 |
| Shorthander, for short | 22 |
| Shortish race, for short | 24 |
| Shortly after teatime, maybe | 28 |
| Shortly before last evening | 27 |
| Shortly to be served, maybe | 27 |
| Shortly, after "in" | 29 |
| Shortly, become a success? | 26 |
| Shortly, conversationally | 25 |
| Shortly, in a stuck-up way | 26 |
| Shortly, in Brit Lit claas | 26 |
| Shortly, to Shakespeare | 23 |
| Shortsighted solution? | 22 |
| Shortstop Jeter and others | 26 |
| Shortstop known as Pee Wee | 26 |
| Shortstop's blunder | 23 |
| Shortstop's faux pas | 24 |
| Shortstop's locale | 22 |
| Shortstop's statistics | 26 |
| Shortstop's stumble? | 24 |