Edit out

The answer

CUT

3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the CUT answer page.

Used 12 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2002. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other answers for this clue

The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.

• DELE (12 uses in xd)
• OMIT (4 uses in xd)
• BLEEP (3 uses in xd)
• DROP (2 uses in xd)
• DELETE (1 uses in xd)

Other clues for CUT

Every other clue in this collection answered by CUT, most used first.

• Director's cry - used 81 times, most recently in 2026
• Snip - used 35 times, most recently in 2025
• Use scissors - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
• "Stop filming!" - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
• Slice - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
• Director's shout - used 14 times, most recently in 2025
• Film director's cry - used 14 times, most recently in 2024
• Director's call - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
• Sever - used 11 times, most recently in 2023
• Piece of the action - used 10 times, most recently in 2019
• Share - used 10 times, most recently in 2023
• Incision - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
• Abridge - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
• Reduction - used 6 times, most recently in 2017

Related clues

Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.

• ___ out a living - EKE, used 426 times
• Conk out - DIE, used 239 times
• Squeeze (out) - EKE, used 214 times
• Rent out - LET, used 200 times
• Just out - NEW, used 146 times
• Scratch (out) - EKE, used 125 times

Search the clue collection

Search by clue words or by answer, or type a pattern with the letters you have and a blank for each square you do not know. The characters _ ? . and - all work as blanks.