The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word EDIT , but the solution may also be DELE which is one of the most recent solution (2017 in USA Today).
Blue-pencil crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
---|---|---|
EDIT | 89 % | 4 |
EMEND | 4 % | 5 |
REDACT | 3 % | 6 |
DELE | 1 % | 4 |
DELETE | 1 % | 6 |
EDITOUT | 1 % | 7 |
ALTER | 1 % | 5 |
REVISE | 1 % | 6 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Blue-pencil
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- delete
- blue-penciled
- blue-penciling
- pencil in
- penciling
- lead pencil
- pencil lead
- penciled
- ballpoint pen
- bright blue
- pencil eraser
- pencil box
Crossword Answer definitions
EDIT noun- A change to the text of a document.
- A change in the text of a file, a website or the code of software.
- An interruption or change to an improvised scene.
- An alteration to the DNA sequence of a chromosome; an act of gene splicing.
- To change a text, or a document.
- To be the editor of a publication.
- To change the contents of a file, website, etc.
- To alter the DNA sequence of a chromosome; to perform gene splicing.
- To alter a film by cutting and splicing frames.
- To cut short or otherwise alter an improvised scene.
- To lend itself to editing in a certain way.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result EDIT
- Blue-pencil
- Emulate Maxwell Perkins
- More than proofread
- Prepare for publication
- Redact
- Revamp a text
- Revise
- Rework, as a story
- Trim the copy
- Update
More clues leading to the result EMEND
- Correct
- Fix the copy
- Improve, in a way
- Adjust
- Fix
- Change one's story?
- Correct, as text
- Correct or improve
- Revise
- Revise editorially
More clues leading to the result REDACT
- Put in writing
- Edit a document for legal reasons
- Edit, as a report
- Prepare for print
- Edit
- Delete the sensitive stuff from
- Blue-pencil
- Change copy
- Delete for security reasons, say
- Modify copy
More clues leading to the result DELE
- Strike out
- Editor's remark
- Strike out, as copy
- Take out
- Mark of omission
- Takeout sign?
- Editor's mark
- Request to remove from a galley
- Takeout order?
- Proofer's word
More clues leading to the result DELETE
- Free up space, in a way
- Remove
- Cancel
- Computer key
- Rubout
- Get rid of
- Remove a file
- Strike out
- Strike
- Nullifying keystroke
More clues leading to the result EDITOUT
- Censor
- Bleep
- Delete
- Bleep, say
- Remove from text
- Remove from a manuscript
- Remove from the text
- Cut
- Blue pencil
- Delete text
More clues leading to the result ALTER
- Make suit, as a suit
- Modify
- Take out or in
- Take in or let out
- Make fit
- Take in, perhaps
- Take up
- Modify, as a dress
- Let out, perhaps
- Do some remodeling