| PLEABARGAIN | Edit parable and add on shorter sentence perhaps (4,7) |
| SUMMON | Call and add on first day of week (6) |
| UNDERUSED | In turn, new dude sure to be on shorter hour (9) |
| PUTSASTOPTO | Finishes ___ a sentence, perhaps (4,1,4,2) |
| TERSE | Short stretch of shorter sentence (5) |
| SHORTCHANGING | Sounds like Kurt is caught and gets suspended sentence perhaps for penny pinching presumably on the till (5-8) |
| WROTE | Decided on a sentence, perhaps |
| ERSE | Language expressed in shorter sentences (4) |
| CLAUSE | Runny sauce is left inside by one of those on a short sentence perhaps (6) |
| HEAP | Clear and chop dead foliage and add to the compost ___ (4) |
| ESCAPER | One who doesn't finish a sentence, perhaps |
| EDIT | Reduce one's sentence, perhaps |
| SWORDS | Weaponry ___ evidence of possession leads to sentence perhaps (6) |
| ONETIME | A single sentence, perhaps, from the past |
| LAWBREAKER | Offender's difficult sentence perhaps left for judge |
| PENALTY | Sentence perhaps key, last of many by writer (7) |
| SEMICOLON | Mark of a long sentence, perhaps |
| FINE | Part of a reduced sentence, perhaps |
| PUNCTUATIONMARK | Stop at the end of the sentence perhaps (11,4) |
| PHASE | Stage of development right out of a sentence perhaps? (5) |