Cut and splice

The answer

EDIT

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

Used 24 times across 14 distinct years; most recently in 2016; first recorded in 1981. It appears in 9 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for EDIT

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

• Revise - used 173 times, most recently in 2026
• Blue-pencil - used 151 times, most recently in 2025
• Prepare for publication - used 131 times, most recently in 2026
• Redact - used 108 times, most recently in 2026
• Cut and paste - used 71 times, most recently in 2026
• Tend texts - used 63 times, most recently in 2026
• Make revisions to - used 55 times, most recently in 2026
• Polish prose - used 42 times, most recently in 2026
• Modify - used 32 times, most recently in 2026
• Correct copy - used 30 times, most recently in 2026
• Fix text - used 30 times, most recently in 2025
• Work on copy - used 30 times, most recently in 2022
• Fix copy - used 28 times, most recently in 2025
• Make changes to - used 28 times, most recently in 2026
• Prepare copy - used 26 times, most recently in 2009
• Make a long story short? - used 25 times, most recently in 2025
• Polish language - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
• Work on proofs - used 22 times, most recently in 2026

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• Facts and figures - DATA, used 223 times
• Ages and ages - EONS, used 203 times

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