Make a long story short?
The crossword clue "Make a long story short?" is answered by EDIT, a 4-letter entry. Used 25 times across 17 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1992. It appears in 10 publications in the xd corpus.
The answer
EDIT
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the EDIT answer page.
Used 25 times across 17 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1992. It appears in 10 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.
- CUTTOTHECHASE (3 uses in xd)
- ABRIDGE (2 uses in xd)
- EDI (1 uses in xd)
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
- Polish language - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
- Cut and splice - used 24 times, most recently in 2016
- Work on proofs - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
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.
- Make over - REDO, used 404 times
- Story - TALE, used 293 times
- Long story - SAGA, used 247 times
- It's a long story - SAGA, used 161 times
- A long time - AGES, used 156 times
- Short skirt - MINI, used 149 times
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