Referring Clues

• Touch up, in a way
• Tinker with, in a way
• Work over Time
• Touch up, as text
• Go over proofs
• Serve Time?
• Blue-pencil
• Do magazine work
• Perform copy desk work
• Make a change for the verse?
• Give Life support?
• Polish language
• Cut, maybe
• Touch up
• Handle text
• Bowdlerize, with "out"
• Use a word processor, maybe
• Take out or put in, e.g.
• Rewrite
• Redo, as text
• Computer menu option
• Do galley work
• Put in or take out, maybe
• Better copy
• Cut and paste
• Rephrase
• Change the wording of
• Prepare for publication
• Database command
• Not leave alone
• Pare, say
• Work in the cutting room
• Rearrange, say
• Work on People
• Rework
• Assist a writer
• Put in or take out
• Be a People person?
• Rework, as stories
• Make corrections to
• Ready for print
• Modify
• Reduce a sentence, perhaps
• Expunge, with "out"
• Get to work on Time?
• Work in the media
• Correct, in a way
• Fix, as copy
• Prepare to run
• Abridge, maybe
• Shorten, say
• Cut, as film
• Cut and paste, e.g.
• Polish film, e.g.
• Cut down, maybe
• Trim to fit
• Trim, as text
• Work for Hearst, e.g.
• Reword
• Do desk work at a newspaper
• Review a review, say
• Do some cutting, maybe
• Make changes to
• Make shorter, say
• Do Time?
• Trim to fit, maybe
• Polish
• Shorten, in a way
• Do some copy work
• Revision, informally
• Do newspaper work
• Tidy up, in a way
• Kind of menu
• Mince words?
• Get to work on Time
• Work on, in a way
• Go to work on Time?
• Microsoft Word option
• Make a long story short?
• Cut for a column
• Polish prose
• Polish, as text
• Better writing
• Cut and paste, say
• Work on after filming
• Clean copy?
• Revise
• Tweak, say
• Trim lines from, perhaps
• Salon job, informally
• Exchange words?
• PC menu heading
• Mark up
• Make the cut?
• Add or delete, say
• Use a 21-Across, e.g.
• Cut, say
• Alter pieces?
• Get copy right
• Mark up, perhaps
• Switch lines, say?
• Ready for release
• Work at the Moviola
• Shorten an article
• Prune print
• Perfect prose
• Work on the galleys
• Correct copy
• Clean up a manuscript
• Prevent errata
• Manage Money, say
• Do some "Money" changing?
• Be a "Health" professional?
• Be a "Money" changer?
• Anger an egotistic author, perhaps
• Work for Money, e.g.
• Shorten to fit, perhaps
• Trim to fit, perhaps
• Work on a magazine article
• Redo a clue
• Shorten, perhaps
• Cut text, say
• Emulate Tina Brown, for example
• Cut and rearrange
• Redact
• Prepare to publish
• Do a rush job
• Work on movie clips
• Wield a blue pencil
• Browser function
• Wield the blue pencil
• Work for Money, perhaps
• Prep for publication
• Do film cutting
• Get copy ready
• Revise writing
• Check for errata
• Correct
• Work on a rough cut
• Work on a manuscript
• Emend
• Cut or stet
• Get in the last word?
• Do some paper work
• Better clues?
• Prepare copy
• Abridge, perhaps
• Man the copy desk
• Text massage?
• Work on words
• Wikipedia option
• Make revisions
• Change one's story?
• Clean up, in a way
• Work on a paper, maybe
• Massage a manuscript
• Splice, as film
• Make fit to print
• Polish up prose
• Work on 56-Down
• Toil in the cutting room
• Polish prose?
• Pencil stuff out
• Cut in a column
• Better writing?
• Get Shape into shape
• Spreadsheet menu header
• Polish writing?
• Correct, perhaps
• Make spelling corrections to, e.g.
• Cut out, e.g.
• Fix up, as text
• Step after "write"
• Time manager's directive?
• Film cut
• Prepare for broadcast
• Mad workers do this
• Copydesk change
• Rewrite, maybe
• Prepare for the presses
• Refuse to pass a sentence?
• Paper clip?
• Work on, as a rough cut
• Ready for delivery, as a speech
• Tighten up, perhaps
• Make changes to, as a manuscript
• Menu with cut and paste
• Perfect copy?
• Paper cut?
• Better Better Homes and Gardens, say
• Rewrite, perhaps
• Work for Money, maybe
• Rework, as an article
• Refine, as a manuscript
• Shorten a Life sentence, say
• Red-pencil
• Mark up for revision
• Make less wordy, say
• Work on proofs, say
• Improve, in a way
• Work on a galley
• Revise, as text
• Cut, for example
• Take (out)
• Fix on a page
• Work on a draft
• Correct text
• Improve a draft
• Revise, as copy
• Cut for a column, say
• Good writers do it often
• Correct mistakes in
• Amend or abridge
• Spruce up prose
• Word-processing command
• Prepare prose
• Revise a mistake
• Revise, as prose
• Work for a newspaper
• Spruce up a manuscript
• Polish, as an essay
• Polish, as writing
• Correct, as copy
• Clean up, as a manuscript
• Work on lines
• Touch up, as a manuscript
• Do word processing
• Prune copy
• Use a word processor
• Tinker with prose
• Work on, as a manuscript
• Correct, as a manuscript
• Go over the books
• Make "Time"
• Improve prose
• Revise text
• Emulate Maxwell Perkins
• Mark one's words, in a way
• Work on galleys
• Change for the better
• Rewrite a bit
• Mark one's words?
• Fix, as phraseology
• Make revisions to
• Toolbar option
• Process text
• Polish an article
• Mark manuscripts
• Prepare for viewing
• Observe Time limits?
• Fix errata
• Trim copy
• Do post-production work
• Make a change
• Abridge
• Touch up text
• Work on copy
• Get People ready for people
• Tamper with text
• Reduce one's sentence, perhaps
• Chop copy
• Polish literature
• Change a manuscript
• Abridge, e.g.
• Cut words
• Make readable
• Take corrective measures?
• Cut out the boring scenes
• Better copy?
• Work over Woman's Day?
• Iron out a draft
• Shape a film
• Prepare People for people
• One way to anger an egotistic author
• Work for Hearst, in a way
• Work with a director
• Cut and splice
• Emulate Perry White
• Splice film, e.g.
• Menu item?
• Tinker with the text
• Ready for printing
• Work on proofs
• Cut features, e.g.
• Chop copy, e.g.
• Cut features
• Make change for Money?
• Polish a story, e.g.
• Revise, in a way
• Amend
• Redo a crossword clue
• Polish a manuscript
• Polish writing
• Shorten short stories
• Change for the better, in a way
• Prepare for the press
• Clean up the galley?
• Fix a draft
• Do some paper work?
• Bowdlerize
• Make the final cut?
• Sharpen a speech
• Clean rags?
• Alter, as a film
• Work to shape a film
• See 53-Across
• Work at a magazine
• Shorten manuscripts, e.g.
• Fine-tune, as a script
• Change text
• Cut out, say
• Tighten the writin'?
• Work on articles
• Make Self improvements?
• Throw out a line, perhaps
• Word-processor command
• Work the copy desk
• Take a blue pencil to
• Cut out the bloopers
• Do some word processing
• Work on a film
• Better papers?
• ---
• Take out, maybe
• Cut, perhaps
• Do copy desk work
• Prepare to air
• Do some cutting
• Tend texts
• Clean up your language?
• Prepare for final viewing
• Trim fat, perhaps
• Make copy less sloppy
• Check drafts
• Work at the copy desk
• Work cutting words
• Polish articles
• Make "Time"
• Ready for publication
• Menu bar option
• Look for grammatical errors, say
• Change someone's words around?
• Use Photoshop, perhaps
• Make changes in
• Perfect grafs
• Toil over text
• Tend to text
• Cut, paste, or delete, e.g.
• Tidy text
• Cut down to size, say
• Do some cutting and pasting
• Fix up, as prose
• Spruce up a story
• Do paper work
• Move text around
• Rephrase, say
• Fix, in a way
• Check prose
• Change a sentence, say
• Change Shape?
• Change one's story for the better
• Change, as text
• Rework a document
• Prepare for print
• Do copy work
• Drop a line, maybe
• Drop a line
• Change your story
• Tend a text
• Fix text
• Fix copy
• Fix a story
• Fix a manuscript
• Tackle texts
• Use 18-Across
• Tend text
• Use a blue pencil
• Do some censoring
• Shorten a text, maybe
• Take out of context?
• Make a long story short
• Shorten, maybe
• Expurgate
• Work in postproduction
• Word processor menu
• Clean up text
• Cut film, e.g.
• Tidy up text
• Fix up text
• Fix up copy
• Make film cuts
• Tinker with Jet pieces, say
• Tweak some text
• Check for errors
• Fix a text
• Word processing function
• Mince words
• Amend a draft, e.g.
• Execute a 47-Down, e.g.
• Work on film
• Piece together film
• Take the word count down
• Improve for publication
• Proofread
• Spruce up, as a story
• Rewrite for style
• Check text
• Work on one's work
• Cut (out)
• Change writing for the better
• Tweak, as text
• Polish, as a manuscript
• Menu choice
• Common menu option
• Clean up copy
• Tighten, possibly
• Fix, as a post
• Change, in a way
• Strike out, say
• Polish a Time piece?
• Shorten sentences, perhaps
• Improve, as a manuscript
• Heed
• Make changes to a story
• Make less wordy, as an article
• Tend manuscripts
• Make ready for print
• Do text work
• Polish text
• Professionally correct
• Polish, as a draft
• Make a movie ready for television
• Find the right words, say
• Tweak text
• Work with copy
• Correct proofs
• Polish, in a way
• Cut
• Tighten up, in a way
• Shorten a sentence
• Do copydesk work
• Revise copy
• Smooth out a rough draft
• Cut a column, say
• Fix manuscripts
• Change People, say
• Work on a proof
• Polish, as prose
• Cut out bloopers
• Revise, as an article
• Splice film
• Make a long story short, perhaps
• Put in a word or two?
• Work on movie clips, e.g.
• Work on a column, say
• Tighten, as some text
• Polish, as an article
• Trim, reword, etc.
• Correction
• Remove errata
• Volunteer for Wikipedia, say
• Trim text
• Revised text
• Word choice
• Exchange some words?
• Fix up a manuscript
• Make cuts, say
• Clean up an article
• Cut-and-paste
• Redact, as text
• Change copy
• Yield to a censor, perhaps
• Trim articles
• Fix the wording
• Work in a cutting room
• Vet text
• Assemble, as film
• Make changes, as to an article
• Police stories?
• Make less explicit, perhaps?
• Cut down to size, maybe
• Revise before printing
• ___ menu
• Modify, as a manuscript
• Proof read
• Adjust to fit, perhaps
• Fix texts
• Make less boring, in a way
• Ferret out flubs
• Get ready for printing
• Peruse and correct
• Work with a blue pencil
• Tighten, maybe
• Work with words
• Correct a manuscript
• Insert or delete text
• Practice diaskeuasis
• Cut a line from, say
• Clean up a manuscript, e.g.
• See 48-Down
• Get ready for publication
• Censor
• Revamp copy
• Shorten the lead, e.g.
• Work in the newsroom
• Doctor, perhaps
• Fix typos, e.g.
• Change sentences
• Redraft
• Assist a writer, in a way
• Emend a manuscript, e.g.
• Adjust for space, say
• Make clearer, maybe
• Tinker with text
• Copyread
• Do Anna Wintour's job
• Check for style
• Prepare for publishing
• Tighten, as prose
• Improve text
• Work with 31-Down
• Make changes in a manuscript
• Do a mixer's job
• Polish for publication
• Cut a paragraph, say
• Rework proofs
• Modify in a word processor
• Revise reportage
• Clean up, as copy
• Revise an article
• Rewrite text
• Better, as texts
• Click "undo," e.g.
• Correct one's work
• Spruce up, as text
• Trim an article, say
• Work on a lead, maybe
• Modify a manuscript
• Cut a scene
• Remove lines, perhaps
• Cut copy
• Fix, as a manuscript
• Proofreader's change
• Correct, as a screenplay
• Spruce up an article
• Tighten a text
• Trim and touch up
• Time change?
• Abridge or add to
• Toolbar heading
• Clear of typos
• Make some changes to
• Crop, say
• Drop a line, say
• Bleep out cusswords, say
• Rewrite puzzle clues, say
• Work at a copy desk
• Clean up Time?
• Decrease the word count, say
• Emend errata
• Touch up for publication
• Put in other words, say
• Work on a script
• Tweak a 4 Across
• Change, as a crossword diagram
• Polish, as a paper
• Word processing menu
• Prepare a crossword for publishing
• Selection before "Copy" or "Cut"
• Spruce up, as an essay
• Make a manuscript better
• Pare a phrase?
• Menu including Cut and Paste
• Reduce a sentence, say
• Rearrange, as text
• Make more readable, perhaps
• Work with a word processor
• Remove fluff from, perhaps
• Change, as some of these clues
• Computer menu heading
• Tweak copy
• Amend text
• Go over copy
• Make text corrections
• Modify text
• Bleep out
• Fix mistakes
• Make corrections to a novel
• Make corrections to a story
• Cut from a film
• Make corrections on an essay
• Job for Lou Grant?
• Work over the grammar in a novel
• Revise a manuscript
• Cut out the boring scenes of a film
• Review a book report and make changes
• Cut out some scenes
• Cut out the boring scenes in a film
• Alter Time?
• Rewrite for the better
• Work for "Wired"
• Make changes to text
• Work for "Maxim," maybe
• Prepare to publish some printed items
• Make changes before publishing new diet
• Prepare to publish current returns
• Do some video production
• Shrink down, maybe
• Fix some paragraphs
• Piece a film together
• Fix the soundtrack
• Work on an article or essay
• Redo some passages, maybe
• Correct sentences
• Change writing?
• Use Pro Tools, say
• Emend (text)
• Drop some details, perhaps
• Cut down to size
• Do some film cutting
• Fix a feature, e.g.
• Do some rewriting
• Change a story for the better
• Cut out scenes
• Censor, maybe
• Check text for publication
• Prepare to put out with the rising tide
• Part of revised item ready for publication
• Adjust text
• Change in current switched over
• Rise in current is correct
• Prepare for the turn of the tide
• Amend a publication
• Prepare text for publication
• Cook up a new diet!
• Name the article you prepare for press
• Check overflow?
• Manage a newspaper
• Woman doesn't finish change
• Literally arrange a new diet
• Revise some selected items
• Prepare to print a different diet
• Selection of scattered items put together
• Be in charge (of paper)
• Ready to run
• Polish stories
• Be in charge of (newspaper)
• Alter text
• Shorten a sentence, say
• Change when season comes around
• Supervise - amend
• Make alterations (in text)
• Check tendency to turn up
• Put together a variety of diet
• Fish raised temperature so correct
• Correct reversal of flow
• Do some copy desk work
• Work on a film or a manuscript
• ...purchased
• Pare prose
• Fix sloppy sentences
• Change one's story, perhaps
• Alter an article
• Change a novel for the better
• One way to reduce one's sentence
• Do some work at the Post office?
• Change Money, say
• Get People ready, say
• Cut down to size, perhaps
• Shorten a sentence, for example
• Do a dele?
• Correct bad word choice, say
• Make perfectly clear
• Have a typo personality?
• Tighten or polish, maybe
• Perfect prose?
• Word-processor menu heading
• Change one's story?
• Pass sentences?
• Play with scenes?
• Do some Wikipedia work
• Do some tweaking to
• Do work on Wikipedia, e.g.
• Revise and improve
• Rework (text)
• Revise (manuscript)
• Correct rise in current
• Boy has sex change
• Correct bad diet
• Modify fancy diet
• Revise upwards trend
• Check
• Prepare to publish review, of course
• Redact, perhaps
• Alter the ebb?
• Hereditary, in part? Correct
• This may turn up? Correct
• Tide rising? Correct
• Correct reflection of trend
• No waiter stands up? Correct!
• Emend, delete and insert text primarily
• Alter ebb?
• Change, as turner turns
• Alter copy
• Fine-tune a manuscript
• Complete fragments, perhaps
• Cut the boring parts
• Revise, as an essay
• Polish the rough draft of a term paper
• Tighten manuscripts
• Make changes to a manuscript
• Correct errata
• Trim 10 pages
• Tighten up, as text
• In English and French says "Revise it"
• Tighten up prose for publication
• Microsoft Word menu between "File" and "View"
• Reduce the word count of, say
• Current ebbing for a change
• Move text here and there
• Make more readable, say
• Make spelling corrections to, for example
• Polish phrases, e.g.
• Cut and paste text, e.g.
• Make grammatical changes to
• Newsroom word
• Fix typos and misspellings
• Fix writing
• Tied in a knot. (That's 'correct')
• Refine wordings
• Blue-pencil text
• Better writing?
• Make changes to a rough draft
• Do cutting-room work
• Prepare to publish a new diet
• Fix features, say
• Work with a manuscript
• Twist someone's words, say?
• Fix sloppy copy
• Correct wording
• Find better words, say
• Fix a 22-Down
• Reclue, as a crossword
• Trim to fit, say
• Make deletions
• Correct, as a short story
• Change, as crossword clues
• Do a cutting room job
• Amend copy
• Prepare less than expeditely
• Cut and paste, perhaps
• Delete, e.g.
• Polish for the paper
• Correct a script, say
• Rewrite clues, e.g.
• Rewrite, as a crossword clue
• Fix Jet defects, say
• Tidy up for the public
• Make a film shorter
• Check for 40 Down
• Polish, perhaps
• Word processor function
• Alter
• Polish literature?
• Tighten, as text
• Modify copy
• Correct, as text
• Work over, as text
• Get to work on Time?
• Cut down, possibly
• Remove an apostrophe from, say
• Rewrite, as crossword clues
• Polish up, in a way
• Get in the last word?
• Spruce up, as prose
• Fix misspellings in, say
• Work on wording
• One of the choices on a computer's 17-Across
• Improve, as an article
• Rewrite clues for, say
• Make crisper, as compositions
• Receding tide?
• Assemble film footage
• Tighten for publication
• Menu next to File
• Polish for printing
• Make tweaks to
• Heading under which "Cut" and "Copy" appear
• 18-Down's menu
• Tweak
• Tweak, in a way
• Emend copy
• Drop a line?
• Fix, as text
• Exchange words?
• Make prose more perfect
• Tend to some p's and q's, say
• Prepare to be published
• Correct typos, e.g.
• Change ... one hopes for the better
• Menu with a Copy command
• Clean up, as text
• Rid of excess verbiage, perhaps
• Fix, as a video clip
• Improve the wording of, say
• Remove typos from, say
• Peer review suggestion
• Crop, reword, etc.
• Make more concise, e.g.
• Improve sentences
• Rewrite "right" as "rite," say
• Make amends?
• Proofreader's suggestion
• Spruce up grammatically
• Menu bar heading
• Tweak, as a manuscript
• Polish up for English class
• Make less wordy, perhaps
• Tighten, in a way
• Polish before publishing
• Turn from rough draft to final draft
• Change for publication
• Drop a line or two?
• Revise, as a manuscript
• Correct and revise
• Get ready to run?
• One may be written in red pencil
• Tweak, copywise
• Common toolbar selection
• Revise for publication
• Touch up, as a YouTube video
• Get from rough to final
• Fine-tune, perhaps
• Work on another's manuscript
• Reword text
• Fix an error in, e.g.
• Mark up with a red pencil, say
• Cut text, e.g.
• Make a writer's writing better
• Do some publishing work
• Word between File and View on a menu bar
• Manuscript modification
• Tweak, as crossword clues
• Change the narrative?
• Prune, polish, etc.
• Reword copy
• Find better words for
• Fix a manuscript, say
• Revise, as a draft
• Spruce up, as a manuscript
• Right columns?
• Computer menu with Undo and Redo
• Blog post modification
• Correct typos in, say
• Direct a publication
• Make a text correction
• Spruce up for publication
• Revise, like a script
• Change, as copy
• Work on text
• Correct some grammar, maybe
• Prep for print
• Menu for Cut and Paste
• Tidy up before printing
• Fix the spelling of, say
• Touch up, perhaps
• Correct, as a paragraph
• Prose-fixing job
• Radio ___ (clean version of a song)
• Prep for publishing
• Dele and stet, say
• Article modification
• Heading in a word processing menu
• Remove excess verbiage, e.g.
• Fix typos, etc.
• Addition of a comma, say
• Computer menu bar heading
• Alter, theoretically for the better
• ___ menu (where to find Cut, Copy and Paste)
• Remove curse words from, maybe
• Work on text, maybe
• Take the swear words out of, say
• Do some prose-tightening
• Modification to a document
• Computer menu with Copy and Paste options
• Check for typos, say
• Alteration to a draft
• Make modifications to
• Correct a typo, say
• Make a long story shorter
• Cut an actor's lines
• Tweak for publication
• Menu with "Undo"
• Tweak, like a rough draft
• Deal with issues at work?
• Copy-right?
• Work at a news desk, maybe
• Move some text around, say
• Touch up before publication
• Sub text, maybe
• Correct the spelling in an essay
• Tweak, like writing
• Make some cuts, perhaps
• Doctor
• Add or subtract, say
• Revise an essay
• Replace "i.e." with "e.g.," e.g.
• Help produce a podcast
• Work on, as an essay
• Tighten up a draft
• Trim, perhaps
• One way to reduce one's sentence?
• Touch up before publishing
• Proofreader's suggested change
• Tweak, like a story
• Drop a few lines?
• Modify, as an article
• Revise before publishing
• Button added to Twitter in 2022
• Change before submitting
• Polish copy
• Change made to a rough draft
• Menu heading often next to File
• Make changes to a text
• Make amendments?
• Address plot holes, perhaps
• Amend for publication
• Revise a Wikipedia page, say
• Revise some writing
• Revise, like an essay
• Adjust for space limitations, say
• Make writing changes
• Do film splicing
• Rewrite for clarity
• Polish some prose
• Shape the narrative?
• Exchange a few words, say
• Make the cut?
• Tweak, like text
• What a Wikipedian does
• Correct a verb tense, perhaps
• Trade unions for onions?
• Adjust, like text
• Get one's story straight?
• Refine a crossword clue, say
• Improve, hopefully
• Change an essay for the better
• Correct type
• Drop-down menu next to File
• Resolve a tense disagreement?
• Change to fit in, perhaps
• Cut and polish, maybe
• Change an essay
• TikTok mashup, e.g.
• Revise, like a draft
• Make shipshape, in a way
• Work on a Wikipedia article
• "To write is human, to ___ is divine": Stephen King
• Tweak to make better
• Polish up a draft
• Work periodically?
• Polish language?
• Make better, in a way
• Mark one's words?
• Use a red pen, say
• Button added to Apple's Messages app in 2022
• Photoshop, say
• Make a montage, say
• Have away with words?
• Button added to iPhone messages in 2022
• Computer menu heading next to "File"
• Create a narrative out of reality show footage, e.g.
• Make some changes
• Make ready to publish
• Put in a good word, perhaps?
• Sub text?
• Switch to a shorter line, say