Related Clues:
- Writer takes in workers to change things around
- Shorten sentences, perhaps
- Improve, as a manuscript
- Make less wordy, as an article
- Massage a manuscript
- Tend manuscripts
- Make ready for print
- Do text work
- Alien swallows detective for a change
- Change, as a manuscript
- Cut and rearrange
- Professionally correct
- Find the right words, say
- Polish, in a way
- Supervise publication