| Text | Length |
| Defeated, but barely | 20 |
| Fit, but just barely | 20 |
| Gardeners' tools | 20 |
| Rough around the ___ | 20 |
| Some swords have two | 20 |
| Precarious positions | 20 |
| Defeats by a whisker | 20 |
| With a side foremost | 20 |
| Pushing the envelope | 20 |
| Experiencing jitters | 20 |
| Like challenging art | 20 |
| Like avant-garde art | 20 |
| Safe for consumption | 20 |
| Restaurant offerings | 20 |
| It's handed down | 20 |
| Authoritative decree | 20 |
| Sovereign's word | 20 |
| Official declaration | 20 |
| Monarch's decree | 20 |
| Command from on high | 20 |
| Despots' decrees | 20 |
| Singer/actress Adams | 20 |
| Ernie K.'s widow | 20 |
| Brickell or Sedgwick | 20 |
| Warhol muse Sedgwick | 20 |
| Warhol icon Sedgwick | 20 |
| Singer-actress Adams | 20 |
| Sedgwick or Brickell | 20 |
| Rock singer Brickell | 20 |
| One-time Mrs. Kovacs | 20 |
| Lou Grant's wife | 20 |
| Entertainer Brickell | 20 |
| Adams of 50's TV | 20 |
| Actress Falco et al. | 20 |
| McClurg and Brickell | 20 |
| Brickell and McClurg | 20 |
| Conveys knowledge to | 20 |
| Instruct spiritually | 20 |
| Offer instruction to | 20 |
| Build up spiritually | 20 |
| Minneapolis neighbor | 20 |
| Wizard of Menlo Park | 20 |
| Kinetoscope inventor | 20 |
| Light-headed person? | 20 |
| Light bulb innovator | 20 |
| Fluoroscope inventor | 20 |
| Computer menu option | 20 |
| Use a word processor | 20 |
| Prepare for printing | 20 |
| Get to work on Time? | 20 |
| Work on a manuscript | 20 |
| Tinker with the text | 20 |
| Make ready for print | 20 |
| Work to shape a film | 20 |
| Work with a director | 20 |
| Prep for publication | 20 |
| Practice diaskeuasis | 20 |
| Polish a story, e.g. | 20 |
| Observe Time limits? | 20 |
| Massage a manuscript | 20 |
| Cut out the bloopers | 20 |
| Work for a newspaper | 20 |
| Wield the red pencil | 20 |
| Tighten up, in a way | 20 |
| Splice after cutting | 20 |
| Revision, informally | 20 |
| Review a review, say | 20 |
| Polish a Time piece? | 20 |
| Mark up for revision | 20 |
| Make less wordy, say | 20 |
| Get Shape into shape | 20 |
| Exchange some words? | 20 |
| Emulate Charles Merz | 20 |
| Do Greeley's job | 20 |
| Cut, rearrange, etc. | 20 |
| Clean up the galley? | 20 |
| Made typo-free, e.g. | 20 |
| Emended a manuscript | 20 |
| Cleaned up, in a way | 20 |
| TV's Mrs. Bunker | 20 |
| Mythologist Hamilton | 20 |
| Hollywood's Head | 20 |
| Archie's dingbat | 20 |
| Forms of publication | 20 |
| Perry White, for one | 20 |
| Manuscript recipient | 20 |
| Correctional worker? | 20 |
| Will Shortz, notably | 20 |
| One checking stories | 20 |
| Max Perkins, for one | 20 |
| Horace Greeley, e.g. | 20 |
| Blue-pencil wielders | 20 |
| Cosmopolitan people? | 20 |
| Reviews and corrects | 20 |
| Uses the blue pencil | 20 |
| Trims for a deadline | 20 |
| Strikes out, perhaps | 20 |
| Puts in a good word? | 20 |
| Plays the diaskeuast | 20 |
| Improves manuscripts | 20 |
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