| Text | Length |
| Magazine staffer | 16 |
| Magazine employee | 17 |
| Greeley was one | 15 |
| Correctional worker? | 20 |
| Copyreader's superior | 25 |
| Blue-penciler | 13 |
| Writer's need | 17 |
| Writer's fixer-upper | 24 |
| Will Shortz, notably | 20 |
| White, in fiction, or Brown, in real life | 41 |
| Watterson or W. A. White | 24 |
| Watterson or Dana | 17 |
| Type of computer program | 24 |
| Time worker | 11 |
| Time management specialist? | 27 |
| Time management figure | 22 |
| Text cleaner | 12 |
| Tabloid boss | 12 |
| Story manipulator | 17 |
| Story assigner | 14 |
| Star employee | 13 |
| Slate.com employee | 18 |
| She's committed to better writing | 37 |
| Self-employed person? | 21 |
| SASE receiver | 13 |
| Ross or Giroux | 14 |
| Robert Giroux, e.g. | 19 |
| Publishing VIP | 14 |
| Publishing person | 17 |
| Publisher's employee | 24 |
| Prose pro | 9 |
| Pro with prose | 14 |
| Postproduction worker | 21 |
| Post position? | 14 |
| Post operative? | 15 |
| Post office worker? | 19 |
| Post master? | 12 |
| Post man? | 9 |
| Person who's authorized to shorten a sentence | 49 |
| Person who switches lines? | 26 |
| Person who makes copy right? | 28 |
| One working on drafts | 21 |
| One striking out, maybe | 23 |
| One of Willie Morris's roles | 32 |
| One of Bret Harte's roles | 29 |
| One fixing a Time piece? | 24 |
| One checking stories | 20 |
| Newsroom worker | 15 |
| Newspaper big shot | 18 |
| Mss. handler | 12 |
| Maxwell Perkins, for a famous example | 37 |
| Max Perkins, for one | 20 |
| Masthead word | 13 |
| Masthead position | 17 |
| Masthead heading | 16 |
| Masthead entry | 14 |
| Marginal worker? | 16 |
| Manuscript receiver | 19 |
| Manuscript fixer | 16 |
| Manuscript changer | 18 |
| Magazine V.I.P. | 15 |
| Magazine executive | 18 |
| Magazine chief | 14 |
| Magazine boss | 13 |
| Mad person? | 11 |
| Journal honcho | 14 |
| Job in Vogue | 12 |
| Jet setter? | 11 |
| James Russell Lowell, for one | 29 |
| Horace Greeley, e.g. | 20 |
| Harold Ross, e.g. | 17 |
| Greeley, for one | 16 |
| Globe position | 14 |
| Globe figure | 12 |
| Giroux, for one | 15 |
| Giroux or Greeley | 17 |
| Galley slave? | 13 |
| Flub catcher | 12 |
| Film job | 8 |
| Film clipper | 12 |
| Ernest Rhys was one | 19 |
| Draft changer | 13 |
| Daniel Meade on "Ugly Betty," e.g. | 44 |
| Daily V.I.P. | 12 |
| Cutter, at times | 16 |
| Correctional worker | 19 |
| Copy righter? | 13 |
| Copy fixer | 10 |
| Copy __ | 7 |
| Book man | 8 |
| Ben Bradlee, e.g. | 17 |
| Ben Bradlee e.g. | 17 |
| Opinion pieces | 14 |
| Think pieces | 12 |
| Slanted writing | 15 |
| Pieces from a board, perhaps | 28 |
| Opinionated pieces | 18 |
| Newspaper stands | 16 |
| Newspaper leaders | 17 |
| Forte of William Allen White | 28 |
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