The Clue
Text changes (5 letter answer)
The Answer
EDITS
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The answer EDITS is seen frequently, appearing about once every 120 puzzles.
Related Clues
Emends
Redacts
Rephrases
Revises
Revisions
Rewords
Rewrites
Blue-pencils
Does copyreading
Emulates Greeley
Film changes
Improves, as text
Makes the cut?
Makes emends?
___ out (deletes)
Prepares copy
Prunes, say
Prunes, in a way
Reviews and corrects
Revises, as text
Touches up
Works on copy
Additions and deletions, say
Adds or deletes text
Changes a Life sentence
Changes a Life sentence?
Cuts a line, say
Does literary work
Emulates Maxwell Perkins
Emulates Robert Giroux
Shortens a sentence, maybe
Takes out of context?
Tightens a piece, say
Does some piece work
Emulates Charles Dudley Warner
Uses a Moviola, in film-making
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"