| Text | Length |
| Spruce up a manuscript | 22 |
| Shorten a sentence | 18 |
| Reword | 6 |
| Ready for printing | 18 |
| Polish, as text | 15 |
| One way to reduce one's sentence | 36 |
| Not leave alone | 15 |
| Move text around | 16 |
| Mark up | 7 |
| Mark one's words? | 21 |
| Make a movie ready for television | 33 |
| Handle copy | 11 |
| Get in the last word? | 21 |
| Get copy ready | 14 |
| Emulate Maxwell Perkins | 23 |
| Do some video production | 24 |
| Do some paper work | 18 |
| Do post-production work | 23 |
| Do copydesk work | 16 |
| Cut down to size, say | 21 |
| Correction | 10 |
| Correct, as copy | 16 |
| Copyread | 8 |
| Check texts | 11 |
| Change a text | 13 |
| Change a manuscript | 19 |
| Better copy | 11 |
| Assist a writer | 15 |
| Add or delete, say | 18 |
| Abridge, maybe | 14 |
| Abridge, e.g. | 13 |
| Work with copy | 14 |
| Work with a director | 20 |
| Work on mss. | 12 |
| Work on articles | 16 |
| Work on a film | 14 |
| Work on a draft | 15 |
| Work for Money, maybe | 21 |
| Work for Hearst, in a way | 25 |
| Work at the copy desk | 21 |
| Word processor menu | 19 |
| Word processing function | 24 |
| Use deles and stets | 19 |
| Use a word processor, maybe | 27 |
| Trim, as text | 13 |
| Touch up, in a way | 18 |
| Tend manuscripts | 16 |
| Shrink down, maybe | 18 |
| Shorten an article | 18 |
| Shape a film | 12 |
| Rewrite for style | 17 |
| Rework, as copy | 15 |
| Revise, as copy | 15 |
| Revise before printing | 22 |
| Refine, as a manuscript | 23 |
| Redo some passages, maybe | 25 |
| Redo a crossword clue | 21 |
| Ready for release | 17 |
| Read copy | 9 |
| Prune print | 11 |
| Prepare to run | 14 |
| Prep for publication | 20 |
| Practice diaskeuasis | 20 |
| Polish, in a way | 16 |
| Polish, as a manuscript | 23 |
| Polish writing? | 15 |
| Polish up prose | 15 |
| Polish film, e.g. | 17 |
| Polish a story, e.g. | 20 |
| Polish a column | 15 |
| Piece together film | 19 |
| Paper cut? | 10 |
| One way to anger an egotistic author | 36 |
| Observe Time limits? | 20 |
| Modify text | 11 |
| Menu item? | 10 |
| Massage a manuscript | 20 |
| Man the city desk | 17 |
| Make the final cut? | 19 |
| Make Self improvements? | 23 |
| Make less boring, in a way | 26 |
| Make fit to print | 17 |
| Make copy less sloppy | 21 |
| Make clearer, perhaps | 21 |
| Make change for Money? | 22 |
| Make a long story short, perhaps | 32 |
| Fix up, as text | 15 |
| Fix the wording | 15 |
| Fix some paragraphs | 19 |
| Fix manuscripts | 15 |
| Fix errata | 10 |
| Fix a text | 10 |
| Fine-tune, as a script | 22 |
| Film cut | 8 |
| Expunge, with "out" | 29 |
| Exchange words? | 15 |
| Emulate Horace Greeley | 22 |
| Do word processing | 18 |
| Do some cutting, maybe | 22 |
| Do some cutting and pasting | 27 |
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