The Clue
Switches around (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
Copyreads
Emends
Redacts
Rephrases
Revises
Revisions
Rewords
Applies polish to?
Blue-pencils
Changes text
Cuts a film
Cuts and splices
Does copyreading
Emulates Greeley
Improves, as text
Makes emends?
___ out (deletes)
Plays the diaskeuast
Polishes, as copy
Prunes, in a way
Reviews and corrects
Revises, as copy
Revises, as text
Text changes
Time changes?
Trims for a deadline
Works on copy
Works over
Adds and/or subtracts
Changes a Life sentence
Changes made to a manuscript
Emulates Maxwell Perkins
Takes out of context?
Touches up, as a manuscript
Uses a blue pencil
Does some magazine work
Throws out a line, perhaps
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"