Brief pain spasm
Brief part of a poem
Brief parting words
Brief parts in movies
Brief party label
Brief passage
Brief passing look
Brief passing notice?
Brief passing words?
brief pause
Brief pause on a score
Brief performance
brief performance by well known performer
BRIEF period
Brief period in nuclear physics: Abbr.
Brief period of apathy?
BRIEF period of danger
Brief period of darkness?
Brief period of quiet
Brief period of rain
Brief period of rest
Brief period of time
Brief period of time?
Brief period, briefly
Brief periods
Brief periods after sunsets
Brief periods of time
Brief periods, briefly
Brief personal history?
Brief petition
Brief photo sessions?
Brief phrase
Brief piece of writing
Brief pitch
Brief plane trip
Brief play
Brief plea
Brief pleasure ride
Brief plunge
Brief plunge in the pool
Brief poetry
Brief pool plunge
Brief post-game summary
Brief preacher?
Brief preposition
Brief promise?
Brief promises?
Brief promo
Brief promo piece
Brief promotional prose
Brief prosperous period in the late 1990s
Brief publication
Brief published biography of recently deceased
brief published statement
Brief quarrel
BRIEF quotation
Brief race
Brief race distance, briefly
Brief race, in brief
Brief rage
brief raid or attack
Brief rainfall
Brief reaction to oversharing
Brief read?
Brief reader, briefly
Brief reading?
Brief record
Brief records, in brief
BRIEF REFERENCE IN PAGE ONE, FIRST BIT OF BOOK
Brief refresher
Brief refreshers
Brief refusal to "Are you hungry?"
Brief refutation
Brief regrets, maybe
Brief rehearsal
Brief relationship
Brief relative of 'yada, yada, yada'
Brief relief
BRIEF remark
Brief remark upon heading to bed
Brief remark upon retiring
Brief reminder
Brief reply?
Brief reproach
Brief researcher, briefly
Brief respite
Brief respites
Brief responses to common concerns
Brief rest
Brief rests
Brief resume
Brief review
brief review or announcement
Brief reviews
Brief ring call
Brief ring finish
Brief ringing sound
Brief role
Brief role for a star
Brief role in a film
Brief role in a movie
Brief roles
Brief romance
Brief romances, e.g.
brief rondeau, having five or seven lines and a refrain taken from the first line
Brief rounds?
BRIEF row
brief Rudely Awaken
BRIEF RUDELY AWAKEN
Brief Rule
Brief rule?
Brief run-in
Brief runs
BRIEF SALUTATION
Brief salutation for men?
Brief satiric routine
brief satirical sketch
Brief scene
Brief scouting mission?
Brief scouting outing?
Brief scrap
Brief script excerpt
Brief scuffles
Brief sec
Brief second?
BRIEF send-up
Brief sentiment
Brief Shakespearean reproach
Brief shining
Brief shots?
brief shower
Brief siesta
Brief sighting
Brief sign of status
brief signature
brief singature
Brief Sketch
BRIEF SKETCH
Brief sketches
BRIEF SKIN-TIGHT SHORTS
Brief sleep
BRIEF SLEEP THEN SEX
Brief sleeps
Brief slumber
brief small-scale engagement between opposing military ground forces using short-range light weapons
Brief smokes?
Brief snap?
Brief snooze
Brief snoozes
Brief snowfall
Brief solo
brief space of time
brief span
Brief sparkle
Brief spat
Brief spell of precipitation
Brief spell of speed
Brief squabble
Brief star appearance
Brief start
BRIEF STATEMENT
Brief statement of belief
Brief statement, by necessity
Brief status updates
BRIEF stay
Brief stop
Brief stop in the action
Brief stops
Brief storage unit
BRIEF story
Brief story that might open a speech
Brief strangers?
Brief street sign
Brief subject
Brief substitute for the unnamed
Brief success (see letters 5 to 8)
Brief sudden pain
Brief summaries
Brief summaries, briefly
BRIEF summary
brief summary or general survey of a theory
Brief summation
Brief summer month?
Brief Summons
Brief summons from a boss
Brief surge in energy
Brief swim
Brief swimming costume
Brief swims
Brief synopsis
Brief term of endearment
Brief text?
Brief thief
Brief thing to say
BRIEF TIME
Brief time (Abbr.)
Brief time (found in all four theme answers)
Brief time for confession
brief time intervals
BRIEF TIME MADE EVEN BRIEFER IN POWER, SAY
Brief time measures
Brief time off
Brief time out?
Brief time pd.
Brief time period
Brief time period, briefly
Brief time periods
Brief time periods, briefly
Brief time pieces?
Brief time spans
Brief time spans, briefly
Brief time to shop?
Brief time unit
Brief time units
Brief time units in an Eddie Murphy film title
Brief time units, briefly
Brief time, briefly
Brief time, in brief
Brief time?
Brief times
Brief times of day
Brief times of relaxation
Brief times, briefly
Brief timetable
Brief title for Anne de Beaupre
Brief title for Jeanne d'Arc
Brief titles for the starts of 20-, 25-, 45- and 52-Across
Brief topic
Brief track races
brief translations of the text of an opera or play projected above the stage
BRIEF TRAVEL
Brief treatise
brief trend
Brief trends
BRIEF TRIP
Brief try
Brief turndown
Brief turndown to an invitation
Brief Tussle
BRIEF TUSSLE
Brief tussles
Brief two-piece swimming costume
BRIEF UP ON NEW MEDICINE
BRIEF UPTURN
Brief upturn, as in revenue
Brief upturns
Brief vacation
Brief variety
Brief version of this puzzle's title hidden in eight long puzzle answers
Brief view