The Clue
Dealt with copy (6 letter answer)
The Answer
EDITED
Tags
Notes
The answer EDITED is common and appears about once every 300 puzzles.
Related Clues
Redacted
Rephrased
Revised
With revisions
Abridged, in a way
Blue-penciled
Corrected copy
Emended a manuscript
Emulated Greeley
Exchanged words?
Made publishable
Make redactions
Polished, as copy
Polished, as text
Prepared for publication
Readied for print
Readied for the printer
Readied for publication
Ready for publication
Ready for typesetting
Reworked, as text
Spliced film, etc.
Tailored a tale
Worked on copy
Worked on galleys
Changed an author's text
Did newsroom work
Emulated Maxwell Perkins
In final form, as a film
Like some copy
Marked up copy
Ready to be typeset
Trimmed to fit, say
Worked on a Life sentence?
Made a long story short?
Ready to be put to bed
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"
EDITED as an adjective:
1. (emended, edited) = improved or corrected by critical editing; "the emended text"