Prepare copy

The answer

EDIT

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

Used 26 times across 22 distinct years; most recently in 2009; first recorded in 1953. It appears in 7 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
• Make a long story short? - used 25 times, most recently in 2025
• 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.

• Not a copy: Abbr. - ORIG, used 52 times
• Prepare potatoes - MASH, used 44 times
• Prepare for a trip - PACK, used 43 times
• Prepare for takeoff - TAXI, used 41 times
• Prepare for a bout - SPAR, used 38 times
• Prepare to be shot - POSE, used 29 times

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