The Clue
Revamps, in a way (5 letter answer)
The Answer
EDITS
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Notes
The answer EDITS is seen frequently, appearing about once every 120 puzzles.
Related Clues
Redacts
Revises
Revisions
Rewords
Rewrites
Applies polish to?
Blue-pencils
Cuts a film
Cuts and pastes
Cuts and splices
Emulates Greeley
Improves manuscripts
Improves, as text
Magazine jobs
Manuscript changes
Polishes a text
Prepares copy
Prepares for publication
Revises, as copy
Revises, as text
Time changes?
Trims, say
Works on copy
Works on galleys
Additions and deletions, say
Adds and/or subtracts
Changes made to a manuscript
Cleans up, in a way
Emulates Maxwell Perkins
Emulates Robert Giroux
Emulates William A. White
Gets to work on Time?
Strikes out, perhaps
Works on authors' works
Works in the cutting room
Emulates Charles Dudley Warner
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"