Work on copy
The crossword clue "Work on copy" is answered by EDIT, a 4-letter entry. Used 30 times across 23 distinct years; most recently in 2022; first recorded in 1953. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself.
The answer
EDIT
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the EDIT answer page.
Used 30 times across 23 distinct years; most recently in 2022; first recorded in 1953. It appears in 8 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.
- REVISE (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
- 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
- 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.
- Work units - ERGS, used 256 times
- Work hard - TOIL, used 183 times
- Musical work - OPUS, used 110 times
- Puts to work - USES, used 109 times
- Units of work - ERGS, used 100 times
- Work - OPUS, used 81 times
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