| Text | Length |
| Correct, perhaps | 16 |
| Correct puzzles | 15 |
| Correct mistakes in | 19 |
| Copydesk change | 15 |
| Contribute to a Cricket team, perhaps? | 38 |
| Computer text function | 22 |
| Clean up, as a manuscript | 25 |
| Clean up the galley? | 20 |
| Clean up text | 13 |
| Clean up copy | 13 |
| Clean up an article | 19 |
| Clean rags? | 11 |
| Clean copy? | 11 |
| Chop up, as footage | 19 |
| Check prose | 11 |
| Check for typos, etc. | 21 |
| Check for publication | 21 |
| Check drafts | 12 |
| Change your story? | 18 |
| Change the wording of | 21 |
| Change someone's words around? | 34 |
| Change Shape? | 13 |
| Change People, say | 18 |
| Change alot, say? | 17 |
| Change a sentence, say | 22 |
| Bowdlerize, with "out" | 32 |
| Bowdlerize, e.g. | 16 |
| Better writing | 14 |
| Better papers? | 14 |
| Better Better Homes and Gardens, say | 36 |
| Be a People person? | 19 |
| B1ue-pencil | 11 |
| Assemble, as film | 17 |
| Assemble a final film print | 27 |
| An anagram for diet | 19 |
| Amend sentences | 15 |
| Amend or abridge | 16 |
| Amend a text | 12 |
| Amend a draft, e.g. | 19 |
| Amend a draft | 13 |
| Alter, as a film | 16 |
| Alter pieces? | 13 |
| Alter MSS. | 10 |
| Adjust to fit, perhaps | 22 |
| Add vertical line 9 (word 2) and vertical line 7 (word 2) and enter the answer to the resulting clue on this line | 113 |
| Add and dele | 12 |
| Act the diaskeuast | 18 |
| ___ menu | 8 |
| Cut for TV | 10 |
| Fixed copy | 10 |
| Readied for the printer | 23 |
| Made typo-free | 14 |
| Made a long story short? | 24 |
| Blue-penciled | 13 |
| Rephrased | 9 |
| Redacted | 8 |
| Ready to be typeset | 19 |
| Prepared for publication | 24 |
| Prepared for printing | 21 |
| Prepared for print | 18 |
| Worked on galleys | 17 |
| Ready to be put to bed | 22 |
| Prepared copy | 13 |
| In final form, as a film | 24 |
| Emulated Maxwell Perkins | 24 |
| Emulated Greeley | 16 |
| Corrected, as text | 18 |
| Corrected copy | 14 |
| Checked copy | 12 |
| Bowdlerized | 11 |
| Worked the blue pencil | 22 |
| Worked on copy | 14 |
| Worked on a Life sentence? | 26 |
| With revisions | 14 |
| Trimmed to fit, say | 19 |
| Trimmed to fit | 14 |
| Trimmed text | 12 |
| Tailored a tale | 15 |
| Spliced film, etc. | 18 |
| Shortened, as a law review article | 34 |
| Shortened a sentence, maybe | 27 |
| Rewrote, maybe | 14 |
| Rewritten, perhaps | 18 |
| Reworked, as text | 17 |
| Reduced a sentence, perhaps | 27 |
| Reduced a sentence perhaps | 27 |
| Ready to be printed | 19 |
| Ready for typesetting | 21 |
| Readied for publication | 23 |
| Readied for print | 17 |
| Put in final form | 17 |
| Polished, as text | 17 |
| Polished, as copy | 17 |
| Polished prose | 14 |
| Marked up copy | 14 |
| Make redactions | 15 |
| Made typo-free, e.g. | 20 |
| Made publishable | 16 |
| Like some copy | 14 |
| Got to work on "Time" | 31 |
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