The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word EDITS
I've seen this crossword clue in The Sunday Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result EDITS
- Makes long story short?
- Prepares to publish working diets
- Changes seen in cast, I decided to retire
- Changes in time to get into team on the up
- Revises the back-end of Christmastide
- Changes to copy trend around school
- Prepares altered diets
- Redacts, removes first clause from decrees
- In “Aliens,” Diana does manuscript work
- Cooks up to walk over recipe getting lost
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The straight part
We know that "Changes" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case changes = edits.The cryptic/wordplay part
In cryptic crossword there's often an wordplay/cryptic part as well.This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
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What does EDITS mean?
EDITS 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.