The Clue
Changes a Life sentence (5 letter answer)
The Answer
EDITS
Tags
Notes
The answer EDITS is seen frequently, appearing about once every 120 puzzles.
Related Clues
Emends
Redacts
Revises
Rewrites
Blue-pencils
Cuts a film
Cuts and pastes
Cuts and splices
Improves, as text
Magazine jobs
Makes the cut?
Makes emends?
Manuscript changes
___ out (deletes)
Plays the diaskeuast
Polishes, as copy
Polishes a text
Revamps, in a way
Switches around
Text changes
Trims, say
Tweaks a manuscript
Works on copy
Works on galleys
Works over
Adds and/or subtracts
Adds or deletes text
Changes a Life sentence?
Cuts a line, say
Emulates Maxwell Perkins
Emulates Robert Giroux
Gets to work on Time?
Takes out of context?
Uses a blue pencil
Does some magazine work
Does some piece work
Emulates Charles Dudley Warner
Additions and subtractions, of a sort
Definition
EDIT as a verb:
1. (edit, redact) = prepare for publication or presentation by correcting, revising, or adapting; "Edit a book on lexical semantics"; "she edited the letters of the politician so as to omit the most personal passages"
2. supervise the publication of; "The same family has been editing the influential newspaper for almost 100 years"
3. (edit, cut, edit out) = cut and assemble the components of; "edit film"; "cut recording tape"
4. (edit, blue-pencil, delete) = cut or eliminate; "she edited the juiciest scenes"