The Clue
Practice diaskeuasis (4 letter answer)
The Answer
EDIT
Tags
Notes
The answer EDIT is very common and appears about once every 36 puzzles.
Related Clues
Redact
Revise
Alter pieces?
Amend a text
Blue-pencil
Cut for a column
Cut and paste
Cut and splice
Database command
Do Time?
Handle copy
Mark up
Polish language
Polish, in a way
Prepare copy
Prepare for publication
Ready for print
Revise a manuscript
Revise for publication
Rework, as stories
Streamline copy
Touch up
Work on copy
Cut and splice film
Do magazine work
Do newsroom work
Emulate Norman Cousins
Get to work on Time?
Make shorter, say
Man the city desk
Mark up, perhaps
Put in or take out
Tidy up, in a way
What diaskeuasts do
Work over Time
Use a word processor, maybe
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"