Make the cut? Crossword Clue

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Make the cut? Crossword Answer

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PARE

(4 letters)

OPERATE

(7 letters)

EDIT

(4 letters)

SNIP

(4 letters)

TRIM

(4 letters)

Helpful Hints

(verb)
1. cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of
2. cut off from a whole

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

MAKE (verb)
1. put in order or neaten
2. eliminate urine
MAKE (noun)
1. the act of mixing cards haphazardly
2. a recognizable kind
CUT (noun)
1. the omission that is made when an editorial change shortens a written passage
2. the act of penetrating or opening open with a sharp edge
CUT (verb)
1. weed out unwanted or unnecessary things
2. cut down on; make a reduction in
CUT (adjective)
1. made neat and tidy by trimming
2. (used of rates or prices) reduced usually sharply

Hint 3: Other Answers Used in the Past

PARE
(4 letters)
OPERATE
(7 letters)
EDIT
(4 letters)
SNIP
(4 letters)
TRIM
(4 letters)

Hint 4: Anagram

Unscramble the letters below to solve for today's answer.
POL

More LA Times Crossword (8/6/2025) Answers

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23. Puma rival

25. Professional who sniffs out crime?

27. Chorus section

30. Novelist Patchett

31. Cape Cod Bay mammal

32. Mayberry boy

35. Donkeys

37. Professional who helps you breathe easy?

40. Dahi-based drink

43. Clarinet insert

44. Oklahoma city

48. Poet Limon

49. Mega Man platform letters

51. Like plants that grow at high elevations

53. Professional who stops to smell the rosés?

57. Cravat alternative

58. "You got that right!"

59. Color on the Qatari flag

61. Afore

62. Inspire 34-Down

64. Rhinoplasties, or an apt description of 16-, 25-, 37-, and 53-Across?

66. More treasured

67. "Kind of" suffix

68. Textbook section

69. Old-timey television feature

70. GPS approximation

71. Understands

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2. Supervise

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4. Pixie

5. Ready to dive in

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7. Grain that may be cooked like risotto

8. Preserve

9. Off-mic comment

10. Open-sided shelters

11. Rock-clinging gastropod

14. Screened porch for an indoor pet

15. Sets straight

17. Former country that included five -stan countries, for short

21. Make a claim

24. Sugary drinks

26. Filing pros

28. La Tierra's star

33. Region in the Achaemenid Empire

34. Heated anger

36. Pedometer units

38. Request from an underprepared actor

39. Ore. neighbor

40. Endured

41. Covered in tinsel, maybe

42. Katana-wielding fighter

45. "You nailed it!"

46. Circling

47. Loathes

50. Bull on a glue bottle

52. Pool division

54. "The Stiller and __ Show"

55. Bert's roommate

56. Rule the ___

60. Dept. of Labor div.

63. Mani-pedi polish option

65. Instrument that might be played alongside spoons and a stovepipe

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