| INSHORT | To put it briefly - try it shorn! (2,5) |
| STRESSLESS | Serene, square and shorn! (10) |
| INAWORD | Where letters are used, to put it briefly (2,1,4) |
| TRAWLER | Briefly try tool starting engine on riverboat (7) |
| EPITOMISE | To put it briefly, record it with some I arranged (9) |
| INANUTSHELL | Desperate hunt in sale to acquire latest in apparel to put it briefly (2,1,8) |
| CONDENSE | To put it briefly cheat the stupid (8) |
| SUMUP | To put it briefly, make the total higher (3,2) |
| RECAP | To put it briefly, knock around the city area |
| INSUM | To put it briefly (2,3) |
| ARSENIC | As it briefly appears, it's associated with old lace |
| KESTREL | It hunts prey and keeps it briefly in odd locations |
| NYCAREA | Yonkers is in it, briefly |
| PETUNIA | Flower -part of it briefly taken round university (7) |
| HEATRASH | Briefly try to pour scorn on source of irritation (4,4) |
| TEMPED | Did Labour briefly try to persuade in speech? (6) |
| TROMBONES | Briefly try old doctor, one with special instruments (9) |
| ETAL | "Two names ought to do it," briefly |
| IRA | You might put some money in it, briefly |
| OGS | Bests to ever do it, briefly |
