Possible Clues:

• Removal period fixed
• Sign of a changed sheet
• 'Victim of Love' synthpop duo
• ’80s band dates ’80s musician
• A rubbing out
• 'Time' certain to show deletion
• Removal of monarch — troops securing country after uprising
• An area that's rubbed out by age, of course
• Expunction comes with time, certainly
• Smudgy deletion