| Emulate Maxwell Perkins | 23 |
| Do some video production | 24 |
| Do post-production work | 23 |
| Work for Hearst, in a way | 25 |
| Word processing function | 24 |
| Use a word processor, maybe | 27 |
| Revise before printing | 22 |
| Refine, as a manuscript | 23 |
| Redo some passages, maybe | 25 |
| Polish, as a manuscript | 23 |
| Make Self improvements? | 23 |
| Make less boring, in a way | 26 |
| Make change for Money? | 22 |
| Fine-tune, as a script | 22 |
| Expunge, with "out" | 29 |
| Emulate Horace Greeley | 22 |
| Do some cutting, maybe | 22 |
| Do some cutting and pasting | 27 |
| Do desk work at a newspaper | 27 |
| Cut, paste, or delete, e.g. | 27 |
| Change writing for the better | 29 |
| Change sirlion to sirloin | 25 |
| Change for the better? | 22 |
| Yield to a censor, perhaps | 26 |
| Work over Woman's Day? | 26 |
| Work on, as a manuscript | 24 |
| Work on one's work | 22 |
| Work on movie clips, e.g. | 25 |
| Work on a paper, maybe | 22 |
| Work in a cutting room | 22 |
| Work for "Wired" | 26 |
| Word-processor menu heading | 27 |
| Weed out or change words | 24 |
| Volunteer for Wikipedia, say | 28 |
| Undo's menu header | 22 |
| Touch up, as a manuscript | 25 |
| Tinker with Jet pieces, say | 27 |
| Time manager's directive? | 29 |
| Tighten the writin'? | 24 |
| Throw out a line, perhaps | 25 |
| Take the word count down | 24 |
| Take out or put in, e.g. | 24 |
| Supervise, as a journalist | 26 |
| Step after "write" | 28 |
| Spreadsheet menu header | 23 |
| Smooth out a rough draft | 24 |
| Shorten to fit, perhaps | 23 |
| Shorten sentences, perhaps | 26 |
| Shorten manuscripts, e.g. | 25 |
| Shorten a Life sentence, say | 28 |
| Revise for publication | 22 |
| Refuse to pass a sentence? | 26 |
| Reduce a sentence, perhaps | 26 |
| Put in or take out, maybe | 25 |
| Professionally correct | 22 |
| Prepare for the presses | 23 |
| Prepare copy for readers | 24 |
| Perform copy desk work | 22 |
| Modify, as a manuscript | 23 |
| Menu with cut and paste | 23 |
| Make less explicit, perhaps? | 28 |
| Insert carets, perhaps | 22 |
| Improve for publication | 23 |
| Good writers do it often | 24 |
| Get your story straight? | 24 |
| Get ready for publication | 25 |
| Get ready for printing | 22 |
| Get People ready for people | 27 |
| Get a new film into shape | 25 |
| Find the right words, say | 25 |
| Emulate William Allen White | 27 |
| Emulate Norman Cousins | 22 |
| Do some word processing | 23 |
| Do some Wikipedia work | 22 |
| Do some postproduction | 22 |
| Do a diaskeuast's job | 25 |
| Cut down to size, maybe | 23 |
| Computer text function | 22 |
| Clean up, as a manuscript | 25 |
| Change a sentence, say | 22 |
| Assemble a final film print | 27 |
| Adjust to fit, perhaps | 22 |
| Readied for the printer | 23 |
| Made a long story short? | 24 |
| Prepared for publication | 24 |
| Ready to be put to bed | 22 |
| In final form, as a film | 24 |
| Emulated Maxwell Perkins | 24 |
| Worked the blue pencil | 22 |
| Worked on a Life sentence? | 26 |
| Shortened a sentence, maybe | 27 |
| Reduced a sentence, perhaps | 27 |
| Reduced a sentence perhaps | 27 |
| Readied for publication | 23 |
| Changed an author's text | 28 |
| Added to and deleted from | 25 |
| Deleted from galley proofs | 26 |
| Archie Bunker's wife | 24 |
| Meathead's mother-in-law | 28 |
| Head of costume design | 22 |