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Crossword clue for "EDIT"

EDIT: Take a clue, which could stand to be shorter because it is currently using more space than is strictly necessary to make its specific point (which is that the clue is verbose (more verbose than a crossword clue should be)), and make it shorter, maybe

Other crossword clues for answer "EDIT"

EDIT: Touch up; Alter MSS.; Make tweaks to; Polish; Polish for publication; Get ready to run; Slack post option; Work on a newspaper; Mark my words?; Censor; Perfect prose; Vet prose; Vet text; Do some word work; Work to shape a film; Cut and paste, maybe; Expurgate; Tend texts; Do book work; Polish, as prose; Polish prose; Take out of context?; Prepare, as prose; Prep for publication; Rephrase, say; Work for Winnipeg Free Press, e.g.; Work at The Globe and Mail, e.g.; Work on text; Prune text; Work on manuscripts; Correct text; Polish a Time piece; Alter pieces?; Professionally correct; Tidy up; Change for the better; Word-processor menu heading; Make changes to; Do some Wikipedia work; Pass sentences?; Play with scenes?; Do some tweaking to; Do work on Wikipedia, e.g.; Do magazine work; Do some paper work; Ready for publication; Tighten or polish, maybe; Tighten, possibly; Subtract from the tract, say; Get the word out, say; Word formed when the tide turns?; Get a word in, maybe; Link next to a Wikipedia article heading; Remove a colon from, maybe; Change this clue, e.g.; Commute a sentence?; Correct proofs; Work on words; Clean up a magazine; Insert or delete; Prepare copy; Shorten a sentence, maybe; Tamper with text; Use a word processor; Work in the cutting room; Work on the galleys; Get to work on Time?; Polish up the copy; Wield a blue pencil; Work with a blue pencil; Prune print; Ready for release; Shorten an article; Work at the Moviola; Clean up a manuscript; Correct copy; Prevent errata; Anger an egotistic author, perhaps; Be a "Health" professional?; Be a "Money" changer?; Do some "Money" changing?; Manage Money, say; Shorten to fit, perhaps; Trim to fit, perhaps; Work for Money, e.g.; Cut text, say; Emulate Tina Brown, for example; Prepare to run; Redo a clue; Rephrase; Shorten, perhaps; Work on a magazine article; Cut and rearrange; Do a rush job; Prepare to publish; Work on movie clips; Browser function; Get copy ready; Reduce a sentence, perhaps; Revise writing; Wield the blue pencil; Work for Money, perhaps; Abridge, perhaps; Check for errata; Correct; Cut or stet; Emend; Better clues?; Man the copy desk; Text massage?; Work on a manuscript; Work on a rough cut; Make fit to print; Make revisions; Massage a manuscript; Polish up prose; Shorten, in a way; Splice, as film; Wikipedia option; Work on a paper, maybe; Work over Time; Better writing?; Cut in a column; Pencil stuff out; Cut, maybe; Cut, say; Make the cut?; Take a blue pencil to; Toil in the cutting room; Work on 56-Down; Work the copy desk; Cut down to size, say; Prepare for the press; Prepare to air; Computer menu option; Cut and paste, say; Database command; Menu choice; Revise text; Tweak, as text; Polish, as a draft; Polish, as an article; Rework; Tighten up, in a way; Tighten, as some text; Trim text; Work on a draft; Change, as text; Get ready for printing; Make changes, as to an article; Police stories?; Redact, as text; Revise, as text; Touch up, as text; Work in a cutting room; Yield to a censor, perhaps; Better Better Homes and Gardens?; Correct a sentence, perhaps; Do Anna Wintour's job; Do some cutting and pasting; Find the right words, say; Get ready for print; Paper clip?; Polish words?; Render ready for reading; Rework, as an article; Tweak some text; Make text better; Massage text; Redline; Fix thus clue, say; Make Shortz work of something?; Make sure there are words missing from a clue, say; Resolved a tense situation, say?; Undo an erogenous autocorrect, say; Alter or refine; Correct the text; Revise copy; Doctor; Fix text; Change words in mid-speech; Correct articles; Cut and splice, e.g.; Do galley work; Emulate Perry White; Modify manuscripts; Rewrite; Spruce up text; Work on papers; Do cutting room work; Reduce a sentence?; Work on copy; Do a mixer's job; Perfect Time, say; Revision; Work for People, perhaps; Work on proofs; Clean up the galley?; Cut and paste, e.g.; Do paper work; Prepare for printing; Splice, e.g.; Amend a draft; Change, in a way; Click "undo," e.g.; Make modifications to; Polish copy; Tend to text; Use stets, e.g.; Change People?; Cut to fit, say; Cut, perhaps; Make a dele?; Observe Time limits?; Prepare for print; Tighten, as prose; Correct mistakes in; Good writers do it often; Improve, in a way; Ready for print; Strike out, e.g.; Cut for a column, say; Improve a draft; Revise, as copy; Work on a galley; Cut, for example; Fix on a page; Take (out); Make less wordy, say; Mark up for revision; Red-pencil; Shorten a Life sentence, say; Shorten, say; Work on proofs, say; Correct, perhaps; Refine, as a manuscript; Rewrite, maybe; Rewrite, perhaps; Work for Money, maybe; Change text; Cut out, e.g.; Cut out, say; Make spelling corrections to, e.g.; Perfect copy; Trim, perhaps; __ menu; Do some cutting; Drop a line, maybe; Fix, in a way; Make less wordy, as an article; Polish writing; Work on film; Work on one's work; Change People, say; Change a manuscript; Polish, in a way; Put in a word or two?; Work on a column, say; Work on a proof; Add or delete, say; Adjust to fit, perhaps; Make less explicit, perhaps?; Word choice; Work on galleys; Adjust for space, say; Cut a line from, say; Doctor, perhaps; Prepare for publishing; Work with words; Improve text; Proofreader's change; Tinker with text; Clean up Time?; Menu including Cut and Paste; Put in other words, say; Reduce a sentence, say; Remove fluff from, perhaps; Time change?; Word processing menu; Work on a script; Correct a script, say; Find better words, say; Exchange words?; Fix, as text; Polish a manuscript; Remove an apostrophe from, say; Change the narrative?; Cut text, e.g.; Make read better; Tighten, in a way; Dele and stet, say; Do some prose-tightening; Prose-fixing job; Touch up, perhaps; Work on text, maybe; Address plot holes, perhaps; Adjust for space limitations, say; Change to fit in, perhaps; Correct a verb tense, perhaps; Exchange a few words, say; Improve, hopefully; Make shipshape, in a way; Polish, as an essay; Resolve a tense disagreement?; Shape the narrative?; TikTok mashup, e.g.; Trade unions for onions?; Correct "Time"?; Make changes; Modify text; Prepare text; Alter; Bowdlerize; Change copy; Clean up copy; Go over copy; Polish a story; Spell-check, e.g.; Trim copy; Mark up manuscripts; Rework a manuscript; Check for style; Correct a manuscript; Revise a manuscript; Rework the manuscript; Rework, as copy; Check for typos; Computer command; Do newspaper work; Do publishing work; Make deles and stets; Touch up a manuscript; Use a blue pencil; Cut and paste, perhaps; Do manuscript work; Improve readability; Polish a column; Revise a mistake; Rework, in a way; Scan for errata; Splice frames; Word processing command; Word-processor command; Mark manuscripts; Polish an article; Amend or abridge; Clean up, as a manuscript; Correct, as copy; Cut, as film; Polish, as writing; Prepare prose; Revise, as prose; Spruce up a manuscript; Spruce up prose; Work for a newspaper; Tinker with prose; Do word processing; Prune copy; Touch up, as a manuscript; Work on lines; Work on, as a manuscript; Go over the books; Improve prose; Make "Time"; Mark one's words, in a way; Mark one's words?; Rewrite a bit; Check for 40 Down; Complete fragments, perhaps; Polish for the paper; Polish, perhaps; Revise and improve; Tidy up for the public; Tighten, as text; Word processor function; Correct, as a manuscript; Fix, as phraseology; Make revisions to; Process text; Toolbar option; Throw out a line, perhaps; Use a word processor, maybe; Work at a magazine; Work on articles; Check prose; Do copy work; Do some word processing; Fix up, as prose; Perfect grafs; Spruce up a story; Improve, as a manuscript; Polish, as a manuscript; Shorten sentences, perhaps; Word processing function; Make a long story short, perhaps; Make corrections to; Make ready for print; Revise, as an article; Trim, reword, etc.; Tweak text; Tweak texts; Alter text; Amend sentences; Expunge, with "out"; Fix up a manuscript; Make more readable, maybe; Modify, as a manuscript; Revise before printing; Make clearer, maybe; Fix, as a manuscript; Modify a manuscript; Modify in a word processor; Prepare for viewing; Revise an article; Revise reportage; Spruce up an article; Trim an article, say; Emend errata; Polish, as a paper; Revise, as a manuscript; Spruce up, as an essay; Touch up, as an article; Trim and touch up; Tweak a 4 Across; Work with a word processor; Crop, reword, etc.; Improve, as an article; Make crisper, as compositions; Make prose more perfect; Spruce up, as prose; Tighten for publication; Common toolbar selection; Correct and revise; Find better words for; Prune, polish, etc.; Revise for publication; Reword; Spruce up for publication; Spruce up, as a manuscript; Tweak, as a manuscript; Work on another's manuscript; Cut for fit or content; Improve for publication; Modify, as prose; Polish till it shines; Revise one's writing; Tidy up, in a way; Touch up prose; Amend and/or abridge; Do postproduction work; Polish up for publication; Prune paragraphs; Remove typos from; Touch up for publication; Clean up, as copy; Manuscript change made; Revise prose; Revise, or revision; Make changes in a manuscript; Mend manuscripts; Launder Money?; Polish literature, maybe; Work for a magazine; Eliminate, with "out"; Get Shape into shape; Reduce one's sentence, perhaps; Smooth out a rough draft; Film cut; Mad workers do this; Prepare for broadcast; Spreadsheet menu header; Copydesk change; Prepare for the presses; Refuse to pass a sentence?; Touch up, in a way; Do some cutting, maybe; Ready for delivery, as a speech; Work on, as a rough cut; Better Better Homes and Gardens, say; Cut down, perhaps; Make changes to, as a manuscript; Menu next to File; Menu with cut and paste; Paper cut?; Tighten up, perhaps; Polish phrases, say; Undo's menu header; What diaskeuasts do.; Be a diaskeuast.; Make up, as "The Tatler."; Prepare copy for the press.; Select, correct, arrange, etc.; Abridge; revise.; Conduct a publication.; Direct the policies of a periodical.; Emulate Hibbs, Luce, etc.; Emulate Horace Greeley.; Set in order, as a MS.; Work over a manuscript.; Remodel a ms.; Make 36 Down.; Revise, correct, etc.; What many publishers do.; Work over a Ms.; Work over copy.; Correct manuscript.; Form of a book: Abbr.; Manage a publication.; Revise mss.; Do journalistic work.; Make corrections.; Prepare news for print.; Work over 1 Down.; Abridge.; Mark a ms.; Read, reject or accept.; Supervise, as a journalist.; Work on mss.; Work on the copy desk.; Select, arrange, etc.; Decide to dele or stet.; Excise copy.; Handle copy.; Correct Mss.; Prepare film for showing.; Read copy.; Revise script.; Revise, rewrite, etc.; Copyread.; Cut copy.; Do rewrites.; Make emendations.; Ready for the press.; Supervise writing.; Emend a manuscript; Alter, adapt, etc.; Cut, rearrange, etc.; Delete (with "out").; Adapt or refine.; Crop, as home movies.; Dele, stet, etc.; Work on a paper.; Compile.; Do paper work of a kind.; Go over MSS.; Cut (with out).; Do a newspaper job.; Do a newsroom job; B1ue-pencil; Correct errata; Do city-room work; Do newsroom work; Do copyreading; Do news work; Man the city desk; Work on a magazine; Do copydesk work; Do a paper job; Do desk work; Smooth out copy; Amend a text; Do Greeley's job; Emulate William Allen White; Mark up copy; Work at the copy desk; Dele or rewrite; Change a text; Check for publication; Get a new film into shape; Make the copy right; Prepare copy for readers; Rewrite, in a way; Cut and splice film; Cut movie footage; Cut, as a film; Emulate Robert Giroux; Weed out or change words; Change the text; Do some redacting; Revise a 17 Across; Do a redacting job; Revamp, in a way; Tighten prose; Act the diaskeuast; Bowdlerize, e.g.; Correct texts; Splice kinescopes; Assemble a final film print; Emulate Harold Ross; Add and dele; Do a diaskeuast's job; Do a magazine job; Emulate Edward Bok; Emulate Mencken; Emulate Norman Cousins; Shape up a script; Tailor a tale; Emulate Fadiman; Emulate Greeley; Practice diaskeuasis; Revise and correct; An anagram for diet; Cut from a film; Check texts; Polish puzzles; Streamline copy; Check for typos, etc.; Emulate Charles Merz; Fix copy; Splice some shots; Returning tide?; Computer text function; Tinker with, in a way; Bowdlerize, with "out"; Give Life support?; Go over proofs; Handle text; Make a change for the verse?; Perform copy desk work; Serve Time?; Redo, as text; Take out or put in, e.g.; Change the wording of; Not leave alone; Pare, say; Put in or take out, maybe; Assist a writer; Be a People person?; Put in or take out; Rearrange, say; Rework, as stories; Work on People; Correct, in a way; Work in the media; Abridge, maybe; Cut down, maybe; Fix, as copy; Polish film, e.g.; Trim, as text; Do Time?; Do desk work at a newspaper; Make shorter, say; Review a review, say; Work for Hearst, e.g.; Do some copy work; Revision, informally; Trim to fit, maybe; Go to work on Time?; Kind of menu; Microsoft Word option; Work on, in a way; Clean copy?; Cut for a column; Polish, as text; Tweak, say; Work on after filming; Mark up; PC menu heading; Salon job, informally; Use a 21-Across, e.g.; Get copy right; Mark up, perhaps; Step after "write"; Switch lines, say?; Time manager's directive?; Clean rags?; Fine-tune, as a script; Fix up, as text; Move text around; Tighten the writin'?; ---; Better papers?; Change a sentence, say; Rework a document; Take out, maybe; Common menu option; Execute a 47-Down, e.g.; Strike out, say; Cut a column, say; Cut down to size, maybe; Exchange some words?; Make cuts, say; ___ menu; Work on a lead, maybe; Work with 31-Down; Drop a line, say; Make some changes to; Pare a phrase?; Rearrange, as text; Toolbar heading; Computer menu heading; Cut and paste text, e.g.; Move text here and there; Twist someone's words, say?; Work with a manuscript; Change ... one hopes for the better; Cut down, possibly; Make amends?; Menu bar heading; One of the choices on a computer's 17-Across; Polish up, in a way; Prepare to be published; Tend to some p's and q's, say; Tweak, in a way; Computer menu with Undo and Redo; Polish before publishing; Right columns?; Word between File and View on a menu bar; Computer menu bar heading; Copy-right?; Deal with issues at work?; Heading in a word processing menu; Remove excess verbiage, e.g.; Work at a news desk, maybe; ___ menu (where to find Cut, Copy and Paste); Add or subtract, say; Make some cuts, perhaps; Menu bar option; Modify, as an article; Move some text around, say; One way to reduce one's sentence?; Replace "i.e." with "e.g.," e.g.; Sub text, maybe; Touch up before publication; Work on, as an essay; Make amendments?; Button added to Twitter in 2022; Arrange some video clips, e.g.; Get one's story straight?; Change for the better, in a way; Use Photoshop, perhaps; Touch up the text; Correct a text; Cut (out); Deal with one's period, perhaps?; Make film cuts; Touch up text; Fix up copy; Fix up text; Tidy up text; Clean up text; Cut film, e.g.; Fix typos, e.g.; Polish, as a column; Take stuff out; Do some "Self" improvement; Reverse tide?; Use carets; Tighten text; To write is human, to ___ divine (Stephen King); Photoshop, say; Make radio-friendly, say; Version, as of a movie; Cut or clip; Software-menu header; Doctor, as a script; Menu that contains Cut, Copy, and Paste; Pare a graf?; Photoshop, as a picture; Tighten, perhaps; Change for the better, perhaps; Chop copy; Splice after cutting; Cut out the boring scenes; Prepare People for people; Cut features; Delete a scene; Fix errata; Insert carets, perhaps; Correct spelling; Shorten a sentence; Tend to some p's and q's; Use deles and stets; Wield the red pencil; Cut out the bloopers; Get ready for publication; Make changes in Time?; Make readable; Take corrective measures?; Do word work; Fix a draft; Make a movie ready for television; Make less boring, in a way; Make the final cut?; Abridge, e.g.; Fix errata, e.g.; Cut words; Get People ready for people; Make a change; Alter, as a film; Iron out a draft; Shorten manuscripts, e.g.; Work over Woman's Day?; Amend a draft, e.g.; Change your story; Check for errors; Cut, paste, or delete, e.g.; Piece together film; Spruce up, as a story; Prepare for final viewing; Tidy text; Work on a film; Change sentences; Emend a manuscript, e.g.; Insert or delete text; Clean up an article; Correct, as a screenplay; Cut a scene; Make a manuscript better; Prepare a crossword for publishing; Tighten a text; Correct wording; Correct, as text; Cut the boring parts; Fix a 22-Down; Refine wordings; Rewrite clues, e.g.; Work over, as text; 18-Down's menu; Correct typos, e.g.; Improve the wording of, say; Make more concise, e.g.; Menu with a Copy command; Peer review suggestion; Polish for printing; Receding tide?; Rewrite "right" as "rite," say; Change for publication; Change, as copy; Drop a line or two?; Fix an error in, e.g.; Make less wordy, perhaps; Mark up with a red pencil, say; Menu for Cut and Paste; One may be written in red pencil; Revise, as a draft; Revise, like a script; Touch up, as a YouTube video; Tweak, as crossword clues; Alter, theoretically for the better; Change, as crossword clues; Fix the spelling of, say; Modify, as text; Tweak the wording of; Alter in Photoshop, say; Fix typos, perhaps; Mark up with a red pen, say; Menu next to File, often; Menu with Undo; Modify, as a photo; Pare down, as an article; Polish for English class; Polish, like prose; Polish, like writing; Reword, perhaps; Slice and splice, as film; Tweak, as a crossword; Tweak, as copy; Add a sentence to, say; Fine-tune, like text; Menu next to View, often; Adjust, as an article; Alter, as a Wikipedia article; Get rid of typos, say; Make grammatically correct, say; Revise, as an essay; Reword, maybe; What the letters affected by 37-Across aptly spell; Change sirlion to sirloin; Correct reciept; Correct puzzles; Do a tape job; Use the blue pencil; Improve, maybe; Journalists do it; Polish, e.g.; Redo 45 Across, e.g.; Review; Splice video tape; Change the copy; Punch up; Sharpen a speech; Shorten short stories; Make change for Money?; Polish a story, e.g.; Redo a crossword clue; Revise, in a way; Chop copy, e.g.; Cut features, e.g.; Ready for printing; Tinker with the text; Menu item?; Splice film, e.g.; One way to anger an egotistic author; Shape a film; Work for Hearst, in a way; Work with a director; Clean up your language?; Change one's story for the better; Change writing for the better; Rewrite for style; Make Self improvements?; See 53-Across; Cut out bloopers; Make copy less sloppy; Remove errata; Splice film; Work on movie clips, e.g.; Assist a writer, in a way; Clean up a manuscript, e.g.; See 48-Down; Better, as texts; Remove lines, perhaps; Spruce up, as text; Work at a copy desk; Bleep out cusswords, say; Change, as a crossword diagram; Clear of typos; Decrease the word count, say; Heading under which "Cut" and "Copy" appear; Make more readable, perhaps; Rewrite puzzle clues, say; Selection before "Copy" or "Cut"; Change, as some of these clues; Do a cutting room job; Make more readable, say; Reclue, as a crossword; Reduce the word count of, say; Rewrite, as a crossword clue; Trim to fit, say; Clean up, as text; Fix misspellings in, say; Fix, as a video clip; Proofreader's suggestion; Remove typos from, say; Rewrite clues for, say; Rewrite, as crossword clues; Rid of excess verbiage, perhaps; Spruce up grammatically; Work on wording; Blog post modification; Correct some grammar, maybe; Correct typos in, say; Fine-tune, perhaps; Get from rough to final; Manuscript modification; Polish up for English class; Prep for print; Tidy up before printing; Turn from rough draft to final draft; Tweak; Addition of a comma, say; Alteration to a draft; Article modification; Check for typos, say; Computer menu with Copy and Paste options; Correct a typo, say; Fix typos, etc.; Modification to a document; Prep for publishing; Radio ___ (clean version of a song); Remove curse words from, maybe; Take the swear words out of, say; Help produce a podcast; Proofreader's suggested change; Revise before publishing; Tighten up a draft; Touch up before publishing; Tweak for publication; Tweak, like a rough draft; Tweak, like writing; Amend for publication; Change before submitting; Change made to a rough draft; Revise a Wikipedia page, say; Adjust, like text; Polish some prose; Refine a crossword clue, say; Revise, like a draft; Revise, like an essay; Rewrite for clarity; Tweak, like text; What a Wikipedian does; Work on a Wikipedia article; Polish text; Work for Money; Mind the p's and q's?; Clean up; Ready for press; Clean up, maybe; Better People?; Arrange film clips, say; Change the subject, say?; Make a line cut?; Modify the volume?; Fix stories; Word processor menu; Make clearer, perhaps; Fix a first draft, perhaps; Tighten, maybe; Shorten a sentence, say; Polish stories; Prune, in a way; Ready to run; ...purchased; Alter an article; Change one's story, perhaps; Do some copy desk work; Fix sloppy sentences; Pare prose; Work on a film or a manuscript; Fix features, say; Assemble film footage; Change a Time line?; Do some publishing work; Fix a manuscript, say; Change lines, say; Polish articles; Tighten up, say; Change your story, maybe; Make more readable; Do some publishing house work; Menu with "Undo" and "Redo"; Process that this clue survived; Button that twitter *still* doesn't have; Proof read; Blue-pencil; Change of "Time"; Clean up, in a way; Cut and splice; Do film cutting; Do some cutting and splicing; Make changes, maybe; Polish language; Prepare for publication; Redact; Set right; Stet and dele; Emulate Maxwell Perkins; More than proofread; Revamp a text; Revise; Rework, as a story; Trim the copy; Update; Useful DOS function; Work on "Gourmet" entries; Amend; Change one's story?; Check books?; Cut and paste; Do some film work; Modify a text; Splice movie film; Add a dash, perhaps; Menu type; Work on a text; Dropdown with Copy, Cut, and Paste; Fix, as a post; Correction; Change of Fortune?; Do a Salon job?; Menu option usually next to File; Modify; Make more good/less bad (Ben, fix this clue, ok?); Kill your darlings, so to speak; Undo, Copy, Paste; Polish, as a story; Menu with Paste, often; Shave parts of People, say; Change, as your book YET AGAIN; Check copy; Work with copy; That's a deep cut! said the director; Better copy?; Take a red pencil to; Cut the Cut, say; Change a clue, maybe; Make a long story short; Trim to fit; Polish literature?; Cut down to size; Do some Photoshopping; Do some tense work?; Get in the last word?; Get your story straight?; Mince words?; Word on many 40-Across; Worry about one's period?; Change, as the story; Work over, as copy; Make a few changes; Make some changes; Contribute to a Cricket team, perhaps?