| One of TV's Bunkers | 23 |
| Theodore Roosevelt's wife | 29 |
| Head of Hollywood costuming | 27 |
| Teddy's First Lady | 22 |
| Mike's mother-in-law | 24 |
| Wife of Theodore or Woodrow | 27 |
| Pulitzer author Wharton | 23 |
| Head with eight Oscars | 22 |
| Head of costume designing | 26 |
| Gloria's sitcom mom | 23 |
| Gloria Stivic's mom | 23 |
| First lady of the 1910s | 23 |
| Archie's sitcom wife | 24 |
| Archie's better half | 24 |
| Popular Lily Tomlin character | 29 |
| TV spouse née Baines | 23 |
| Noted "dingbat" | 25 |
| Perry White's function | 26 |
| It may involve pasting | 22 |
| Academy Award category | 22 |
| Revising manuscripts, say | 25 |
| It may involve striking out | 27 |
| Correcting manuscripts, e.g. | 28 |
| Publishers' output | 22 |
| First ones are special | 22 |
| Web designer's tool | 23 |
| Time management figure? | 23 |
| Publishing-house employee | 25 |
| Copyreader's superior | 25 |
| Writer's fixer-upper | 24 |
| Watterson or W. A. White | 24 |
| Type of computer program | 24 |
| Time management specialist? | 27 |
| Time management figure | 22 |
| Publisher's employee | 24 |
| Person who switches lines? | 26 |
| Person who makes copy right? | 28 |
| One striking out, maybe | 23 |
| One of Bret Harte's roles | 29 |
| One fixing a Time piece? | 24 |
| James Russell Lowell, for one | 29 |
| Pieces from a board, perhaps | 28 |
| Forte of William Allen White | 28 |
| Newspaper V.I.P.'s | 22 |
| Magazine staff members | 22 |
| Writers' overseers | 22 |
| They're experts in cases | 28 |
| Story slashers and restorers | 28 |
| Perkins, Greeley et al. | 23 |
| People behind the Times | 23 |
| Magazine letter addressees | 26 |
| Life sentence reducers? | 23 |
| Makes better, in a way | 22 |
| Changes one's story? | 24 |
| Works in the cutting room | 25 |
| Makes a long story short? | 25 |
| Emulates Maxwell Perkins | 24 |
| Deletes, with "out" | 29 |
| Prepares for publication | 24 |
| Polishes for the press | 22 |
| Emulates Robert Giroux | 22 |
| Works on the second draft | 25 |
| Shortens a sentence, perhaps | 28 |
| Works with columns, say | 23 |
| Works on authors' works | 27 |
| Works for People, perhaps | 25 |
| Trims, cuts, pastes, etc. | 25 |
| Touches up, as a manuscript | 27 |
| Throws out a line, perhaps | 26 |
| Takes some movie scenes out | 27 |
| Shortens a sentence, maybe | 26 |
| Revises crossword clues | 23 |
| Refines, as a manuscript | 24 |
| Readies for publication | 23 |
| Manuscript modifications | 24 |
| Helps People get in shape? | 26 |
| Emulates William A. White | 25 |
| Does some magazine work | 23 |
| Does some copy-righting? | 24 |
| Changes, as a manuscript | 24 |
| Changes some clues, perhaps | 27 |
| Changes one's story | 23 |
| Changes made to a manuscript | 28 |
| Changes comodity to commodity | 29 |
| Changes a Life sentence? | 24 |
| Changes a Life sentence | 23 |
| Additions and deletions, say | 28 |
| Removes from the story | 22 |
| "Mayor" author | 24 |
| Former Big Apple mayor | 22 |
| "Mayor" memoirist | 27 |
| Ex-mayor with a talk show | 25 |
| Long-time telethon cohost | 25 |
| Johnny Carson's sidekick | 28 |
| 1980s Attorney General | 22 |
| Attorney general under Reagan | 29 |
| 1980's attorney general | 27 |
| '80s attorney general | 25 |
| Federalist Society cofounder | 28 |
| Ronald Reagan appointee | 23 |