Possible Clues:

• Make a cut in its dimensions, by the sound of it
• Make cuts in (surface)
• By the sound of it, as big as cut (6)
• Cut it out in such dimensions, by the sound of it
• Cut in dimensions, say
• Write by carving
• Make cuts in
• Cut is put through grinder, topped and tailed
• Hip proportions said to be cut
• Cut niceties in exchange putting off unworldly figure