Editor's excision

The answer

DELE

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the DELE answer page.

Used 13 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2015; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for DELE

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

• Take out - used 75 times, most recently in 2016
• Strike out - used 68 times, most recently in 2024
• Take-out order? - used 41 times, most recently in 2024
• Takeout order? - used 36 times, most recently in 2026
• Editor's mark - used 27 times, most recently in 2019
• Editing mark - used 26 times, most recently in 2025
• Proofreader's mark - used 26 times, most recently in 2026
• Cancel. - used 23 times, most recently in 1999
• Remove - used 22 times, most recently in 2021
• Stet's opposite - used 18 times, most recently in 2008
• Cross out. - used 17 times, most recently in 1993
• Mark for removal - used 13 times, most recently in 2024
• Edit out - used 12 times, most recently in 2020
• Expunge - used 10 times, most recently in 2008
• "Pull it," in proofreading - used 10 times, most recently in 2011
• Remove from a manuscript - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• Editorial strike-out - used 9 times, most recently in 2018
• Editor's removal mark - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Erase - used 8 times, most recently in 1997
• Proofing mark - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Remove, to an editor - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Strike - used 8 times, most recently in 2015
• "Out," to an editor - used 7 times, most recently in 2016
• Printer's direction - used 7 times, most recently in 2014
• Galley mark - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
• Nixing mark - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Opposite of stet - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
• Proof mark - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
• Proofreader's notation - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
• Remove from text - used 6 times, most recently in 2005

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.

• Editor's mark - STET, used 62 times
• Editor's notation - STET, used 41 times
• Editor's override - STET, used 27 times
• Editor's "keep it" - STET, used 23 times
• Editor's "leave it" - STET, used 21 times
• Editor's "never mind" - STET, used 21 times

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