| Actor's first to go over contract (7) |
The Sun Two Speed |
15 Aug 2025 |
| Film, too far away to offer contract? |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
07 Aug 2025 |
| A game cut short |
The Sun Two Speed |
28 Jul 2025 |
| Curtail |
The Sun Two Speed |
28 Jul 2025 |
| (& 16-across) Shorten returns, walking on air - ultimately over-ambitious goal (1,6,3,3) |
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| Shorten |
The Telegraph Quick |
03 Jul 2025 |
| Curtail |
The Sun Two Speed |
25 Jun 2025 |
| Make shorter using a spanner |
The Sun Two Speed |
25 Jun 2025 |
| Expurgate, shorten |
The Times Concise |
20 Jun 2025 |
| Shorten revolting gabardine, cutting yarn now and then |
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| Cut short a game with partners from all quarters (7) |
The Guardian Cryptic |
09 Jun 2025 |
| Shorten a crossing (7) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
08 Jun 2025 |
| Make shorter using a spanner? |
The Sun Two Speed |
29 May 2025 |
| Curtail |
The Sun Two Speed |
29 May 2025 |
| Shorten (a text) |
The Sun Mini |
29 May 2025 |
| Shorten the crossing |
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| Contract |
The Telegraph Quick |
07 May 2025 |
| To shorten a text (7) |
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| Don't give the full version of a game (7) |
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| Curtail brigade perhaps (7) |
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| Shorten by using fewer words |
Mirror Tea Time |
26 Mar 2025 |
| Brigade (anag) (7) |
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| Charlie and Mike withdraw from elite university contract |
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| Shorten; a card game? |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
12 Mar 2025 |
| Abbreviate text |
The Sun Two Speed |
22 Jan 2025 |
| Make shorter badger excited about one |
The Sun Two Speed |
22 Jan 2025 |
| Shorten by using fewer words |
Mirror Tea Time |
20 Jan 2025 |
| "Brigade" is the only one-word anagram of what? (7) |
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| A place from which to direct what precis writers do (7) |
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| Makes me cross when you shorten it! |
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| Cut down complicated big read (7) |
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| You shorten it and that makes me cross! |
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| Shorten (7) |
Puzzler |
18 Dec 2024 |
| You want to cross it? Mr Shorten? |
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| Contract for a connection (7) |
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| Cut short a card game |
The Times Quick Cryptic |
10 Dec 2024 |
| Diminish what's left of attention span |
The Times Cryptic |
28 Nov 2024 |
| Reduce the length of |
The Times Concise |
27 Nov 2024 |
| Shorten by using fewer words |
Mirror Tea Time |
25 Nov 2024 |
| Shorten |
Mirror Classic |
24 Nov 2024 |
| Shorten (7) |
The Guardian Speedy |
17 Nov 2024 |
| Shorten (a literary work, eg) |
Puzzler Backwords |
12 Nov 2024 |
| Cut short a card game |
The Sun Two Speed |
11 Nov 2024 |
| Curtail |
The Sun Two Speed |
11 Nov 2024 |
| Shorten, as a dictionary |
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| A game of cards - contract perhaps |
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| Curtail |
The Sun Two Speed |
17 Oct 2024 |
| Shorten a crossing |
The Sun Two Speed |
17 Oct 2024 |
| Shorten, curtail (7) |
The Sun Mini |
05 Oct 2024 |
| Cut for a game of cards (7) |
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| Abbreviate text |
The Sun Two Speed |
11 Sep 2024 |
| Contract that could make ferry use redundant? |
The Sun Two Speed |
11 Sep 2024 |
| Epitomise |
The Sun Two Speed |
30 Aug 2024 |
| A game cut short |
The Sun Two Speed |
30 Aug 2024 |
| Shorten |
The Sun Two Speed |
21 Aug 2024 |
| Bird flapping in time cut short |
The Sun Two Speed |
21 Aug 2024 |
| Contract that could make ferry operator redundant? |
The Times Cryptic |
01 Aug 2024 |
| Edit and trim (story) |
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| ...to summarise an important part of the ship (7) |
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| Shorten a means of getting to the other side (7) |
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| Make tighter, possibly using a spanner? |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
04 Jul 2024 |
| Couple signed at the end of a contract (7) |
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| Shorten |
LA Times Daily |
15 Jun 2024 |
| A card game's cut short (7) |
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| Condense (text) |
The Times Concise |
17 May 2024 |
| Actor's first to go over contract |
The Sun Two Speed |
16 May 2024 |
| Abbreviate text |
The Sun Two Speed |
16 May 2024 |
| Cut of a thousand pounds pocketed by partner |
The Telegraph Toughie |
15 May 2024 |
| Shorten a ship's control centre (7) |
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| How to shorten a crossing |
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| American university missing third cut |
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| Shorten (text) (7) |
The Sun Mini |
02 May 2024 |
| Curtail |
Mirror Classic |
19 Apr 2024 |
| A newlywed taking in garments at first to shorten |
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| Shorten to 'A Bird, In Time, Will Fly' (7) |
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| Make shorter using a spanner |
The Sun Two Speed |
27 Feb 2024 |
| Abbreviate text |
The Sun Two Speed |
27 Feb 2024 |
| Shorten, as a novel |
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| Shorten key flyover (7) |
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| Shorten by using fewer words |
Mirror Tea Time |
16 Feb 2024 |
| Getting cut off makes me cross! (7) |
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| To summarise, it's a captain's position (7) |
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| Curtail |
Mirror Classic |
10 Feb 2024 |
| Shorten a viaduct (7) |
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| Cut short a card game (7) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
09 Feb 2024 |
| Shorten, condense (7) |
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| Shorten |
Mirror Quick |
15 Jan 2024 |
| Curtail a game |
Mirror Cryptic |
15 Jan 2024 |
| Shorten a literary work (7) |
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| It makes you cross when they shorten it! |
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| Shorten a game (7) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
30 Dec 2023 |
| Shorten a game involving rubbers (7) |
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| Shorten, expurgate |
The Times Concise |
22 Jul 2023 |
| Reduce, as a text |
Family Time |
20 Jun 2023 |
| Make short work of a card game |
The Times Cryptic |
24 Apr 2023 |
| Shorten |
The Telegraph Quick |
30 Mar 2023 |
| Abbreviate text |
The Telegraph Quick |
01 Mar 2023 |
| Shorten a game |
The Guardian Cryptic |
23 Jan 2023 |
| Cut, a bit of a fiddle |
The Telegraph Toughie |
04 Oct 2022 |
| Diminish — curtail |
The Guardian Quick |
31 Aug 2022 |
| Shorten a card game |
The Times Cryptic |
11 May 2022 |
| Shorten, like a dictionary |
Universal |
11 May 2022 |
| A prospective partner lands government contract |
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| Contract could be a game of cards |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
04 May 2022 |
| Make shorter, a book say |
Irish Times Simplex |
20 Apr 2022 |
| A marriage partner's accepting last part of wedding contract |
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| Contract – a game involving several of them |
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| Condense, as a book |
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| Reduce length of a card game |
The Times Cryptic |
28 Jan 2022 |
| Shorten |
The Times Concise |
15 Jan 2022 |
| Shorten a game |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
14 Dec 2021 |
| Make shorter, a book say |
Irish Times Simplex |
11 Dec 2021 |
| Prune tips of azalea bush on hilltop |
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| Shorten (a text) |
The Times Concise |
08 Nov 2021 |
| Put link next to a contract |
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| Make shorter, a book say |
Irish Times Simplex |
16 Oct 2021 |
| Shorten a game |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
05 Oct 2021 |
| A newly-wed accepts good contract |
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| Cut down boy's free time outside |
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| Contract for an offer, got in writing at company |
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| Abbreviate, contract |
Irish Times Simplex |
17 Jul 2021 |
| Make shorter, a book say |
Irish Times Simplex |
10 Jul 2021 |
| A spanner or clip? |
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| Shorten a game |
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| Curtail |
The Sun Two Speed |
19 May 2021 |
| Make shorter using a spanner |
The Sun Two Speed |
19 May 2021 |
| Abbreviate, contract |
Irish Times Simplex |
22 Apr 2021 |
| Contract card game (ace high) |
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| Trim sailor, somewhere high |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
17 Apr 2021 |
| Make shorter, a book say |
Irish Times Simplex |
27 Feb 2021 |
| Abbreviate text |
The Sun Two Speed |
24 Feb 2021 |
| Shorten a crossing |
The Sun Two Speed |
24 Feb 2021 |
| Shorten bit of work maybe done by driller |
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| Bird flapping in time cut short |
The Sun Two Speed |
31 Dec 2020 |
| Shorten |
The Telegraph Quick |
29 Nov 2020 |
| A part of the nose, cut |
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| Contract sailor stuck on reef |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
29 Oct 2020 |
| Make shorter using a spanner? |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
29 Sep 2020 |
| Shorten (a text) |
The Times Concise |
24 Jul 2020 |
| Reduce length of a spanner |
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| Cut short a card game |
The Sun Two Speed |
26 Jun 2020 |
| Minimize a game |
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| Read big novel to summarize |
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| A partner pocketing £1,000 in contract |
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| Shorten for readers |
Thomas Joseph |
18 May 2020 |
| Shorten Arsenal's opening game |
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| A couple's contract |
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| Abbreviate |
The Sun Two Speed |
03 Feb 2020 |
| Cut short a game of cards |
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| Trim graduate climbing hill-range |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
03 Oct 2019 |
| Badger I treated for cut |
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| Condense, story-wise |
The Washington Post Sunday |
11 Aug 2019 |
| . A game – make it short |
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| Shorten |
Eugene Sheffer |
10 Jul 2019 |
| Shorten a game of cards |
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| Cut short a card game |
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| Shorten |
New York Times |
03 Feb 2019 |
| Shorten |
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| Shorten a span |
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| Reduce rating on area of high pressure |
The Telegraph Toughie |
18 Oct 2018 |
| A way to cross a flower and prune? |
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| Shorten a violin part |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
25 Jun 2018 |
| Actor's first to go over contract |
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| Decline to accept marriage participant's detailed contract |
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| Shorten a piece of snooker equipment |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
01 May 2018 |
| Cut short a game |
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| Cut in a card game |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
29 Jan 2018 |
| A contest for couples holding hands cut short |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
07 Jan 2018 |
| Abbreviate, shorten |
Irish Times Simplex |
11 Dec 2017 |
| Contract featuring in a game of cards |
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| A part of the nose is cut |
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| Shorten a card game |
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| Make a long story short, e.g |
Wall Street Journal |
13 Sep 2017 |
| Cut end of sprig carried by newly-wed |
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| Cut obtained by removing cockatoo crest from birdcage clumsily |
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| Refrain from speaking with gold figure, prune! |
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| Contract that makes a ferryman redundant? |
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| Reduce the length of a card game |
|
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| A black girl gathering scrap, to gain central area's contract |
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| Shorten a spanner |
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| A game cut short |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
29 Aug 2016 |
| Make shorter, book say |
Irish Times Simplex |
13 Aug 2016 |
| Shorten a river crossing |
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| Curtail |
The Telegraph Quick |
30 Jun 2016 |
| Shorten |
The Washington Post |
26 Jun 2016 |
| Something going too far in film? Cut! |
The Times Cryptic |
07 Jun 2016 |
| Something going too far in film? Cut! |
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| A game that's cut short |
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| To reduce work is good — admitted by a woman blushing? |
The Times Cryptic |
11 May 2016 |
| A game of tricks cut short |
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| A game of tricks cut short |
The Guardian Cryptic |
05 May 2016 |
| Cut a link |
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| Make a long story short |
Wall Street Journal |
26 Mar 2016 |
| Shorten |
LA Times Daily |
05 Nov 2015 |
| Raised band led by sailor in trim |
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| A place where we'd find captain's contract |
The Telegraph Toughie |
08 Jul 2015 |
| Article by poet laureate cut short? Just so |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
28 Jun 2015 |
| A game to cut short |
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| Raised band led by sailor in trim |
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| Shorten |
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| Shorten a game |
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| Reduce the length of a card game |
|
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| Cross written at bottom of a contract |
|
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| A game in which kings and queens are cut short |
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| Condense |
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| Cut down with a spanner |
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| Precis a game |
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| Reduce in volume? |
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| Condense |
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| A game requiring pack of cards to be cut |
|
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| Shorten a violin part |
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| Curtail |
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| Truncate |
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| Abbreviate |
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| Cut |
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| With 16-Across, Division division * Cut |
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| Cut down |
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| Cut |
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| Shorten |
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| Shorten |
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| Shorten |
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| Edit for "Reader's Digest" |
|
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| Reduce, as a text |
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| Condense, as a book |
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| Condense |
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| Adapt for audio format, perhaps |
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| Reduce, as a text |
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| Edit substantially |
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| Condense, as a book |
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| Cut down |
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| Shorten |
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| Shorten, as a reference |
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| Reduce in scope |
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| Shorten a / card game |
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| Reduce length of a card game |
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| Curtail |
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| Make a long story short |
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| Cut down. |
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| Curtail. |
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| Condense. |
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| Shorten. |
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| Cut down |
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