| CUT | "Ctrl+X" command |
| CUT | "I hate to ___ you off, but ..." |
| CUT | "Measure twice, ___ once" |
| CUT | "Scene's over!" |
| CUT | "Stop acting!" |
| CUT | "Stop filming!" |
| CUT | "Stop filming, we got it!" |
| CUT | "Stop making a scene" cry? |
| CUT | "Stop the scene!," to a film director |
| CUT | "___ it out!" ("Quit it!") |
| CUT | "___ it out!" ("Stop it!") |
| CUT | "___ the crap" (come to the point) |
| CUT | (See 51a) Director's direction? |
| CUT | A ___ above the rest (superior) |
| CUT | Abbreviate |
| CUT | Abridge |
| CUT | Abridged |
| CUT | Action before "paste" |
| CUT | Action stopper |
| CUT | Agent's share |
| CUT | Agent's take |
| CUT | Album track |
| CUT | Album unit |
| CUT | Allotted earnings |
| CUT | Band-Aid site |
| CUT | Barber's offering |
| CUT | Barbershop offering |
| CUT | Button often clicked before "paste" |
| CUT | Carve |
| CUT | Cause for a Band-Aid |
| CUT | Cease and desist order? |
| CUT | Chop |
| CUT | Chop a vegetable |
| CUT | Chop a veggie |
| CUT | Chop some vegetables, say |
| CUT | Chop, slice |
| CUT | Computer command that often precedes "paste" |
| CUT | Control-X command |
| CUT | Cricket stroke made with the bat in an almost horizontal position |
| CUT | Crop, trim |
| CUT | Cry from a director |
| CUT | Cry from a film director |
| CUT | Cry on the set |
| CUT | Ctrl + X, on a PC |
| CUT | Ctrl+X command |
| CUT | Ctrl+X, on a computer |
| CUT | Curtail |
| CUT | Delete |
| CUT | Demand to stop making a scene? |
| CUT | Director's "Stop filming!" |
| CUT | Director's "Stop!" |
| CUT | Director's "stop!" |
| CUT | Director's ___ (certain version of a movie) |
| CUT | Director's call |
| CUT | Director's command |
| CUT | Director's cry |
| CUT | Director's cry at the end of a scene |
| CUT | Director's end-of-scene cry |
| CUT | Director's frantic cry |
| CUT | Director's instruction |
| CUT | Director's shout |
| CUT | Director's shout at the end of a scene |
| CUT | Director's word |
| CUT | Director’s cry |
| CUT | Director’s order |
| CUT | Divide a cake |
| CUT | Divide a cake, say |
| CUT | Divide before the deal |
| CUT | Divide with a knife |
| CUT | Do |
| CUT | Drop from the roster |
| CUT | Drop from the team |
| CUT | Dropped from the roster |
| CUT | Dropped from the squad |
| CUT | Duffy's ___, notorious section of railroad tracks 30 miles west of Philadelphia, originally built in 1832 |
| CUT | Edit out |
| CUT | Edit out, say |
| CUT | Edit, in a way |
| CUT | Edited out |
| CUT | Elimination |
| CUT | Film director's "Stop!" |
| CUT | Film director's call |
| CUT | Film director's cry |
| CUT | Film director's shout |
| CUT | Film director's yell at the end of a take |
| CUT | Film editor's job |
| CUT | Filming word |
| CUT | Gash |
| CUT | Gash, slash |
| CUT | Golfer's hurdle |
| CUT | How a director says "Stop filming!" |
| CUT | Incision |
| CUT | Injured |
| CUT | Kind of throat |
| CUT | Last word from a director |
| CUT | Left out |
| CUT | Let go |
| CUT | Like bodybuilders' bodies |
| CUT | Minor injury for an office clerk |
| CUT | Minor injury you might cover with an adhesive bandage |
| CUT | Movie release |
| CUT | Mowed |
| CUT | No longer in the film |
| CUT | Off the team |
| CUT | Omitted |
| CUT | Opposite of bulk, in gym lingo |
| CUT | Order to stop making a scene? |
| CUT | Paper ___, a tiny but surprisingly painful injury that would make you say "ouch" |
| CUT | Paper injury |
| CUT | Paper injury? |
| CUT | Paper wound |
| CUT | Partner of 51-Across |
| CUT | Partner of run |
| CUT | Paste's partner |
| CUT | Percentage |
| CUT | Piece of the action |
| CUT | Piece of the action, or a shout that stops the action |
| CUT | Price __ |
| CUT | Profit share |
| CUT | Prune |
| CUT | Reduce |
| CUT | Reduce copper on time |
| CUT | Reduce copper temperature |
| CUT | Reduction at the barber's? |
| CUT | Reduction at the barber’s? |
| CUT | Reduction at the hairdresser’s |
| CUT | Release from a team |
| CUT | Release from the team |
| CUT | Release, as from a sports team |
| CUT | Released from the team |
| CUT | Remove |
| CUT | Remove from the roster |
| CUT | Rib or short loin |
| CUT | Ripped |
| CUT | Rough ___ (stage of film editing) |
| CUT | Run around like a chicken with its head ___ off |
| CUT | Salon offering |
| CUT | Scene-ending cry |
| CUT | Scene-ending shout |
| CUT | Set shout |
| CUT | Sever |
| CUT | Share |
| CUT | Share of the profits |
| CUT | Shear off |
| CUT | Shorten |
| CUT | Shorten in length |
| CUT | Shorten, as hair |
| CUT | Shorten, as with scissors |
| CUT | Shortening |
| CUT | Skip class |
| CUT | Slice |
| CUT | Slice (up) |
| CUT | Slice of persecution |
| CUT | Slice through |
| CUT | Slice with a knife |
| CUT | Slice, chop |
| CUT | Snip |
| CUT | Snip with scissors |
| CUT | Snip with shears |
| CUT | Snubbed |
| CUT | Something you would do with a pair of scissors |
| CUT | Song on an album |
| CUT | Sound-stage cry |
| CUT | Stop filming |
| CUT | Studio shout |
| CUT | Take out, as extra footage |
| CUT | The "Lesedi La Rona" was sold as is in 2017 and was then destined to be ___ |
| CUT | The —, 2011 novel by George Pelecanos |
| CUT | Theme of this puzzle |
| CUT | Trim |
| CUT | Trim copper on time |
| CUT | Trim from the roster |
| CUT | Trim paper with scissors |
| CUT | Trim, as with scissors |
| CUT | Truncate |
| CUT | Use a carving knife |
| CUT | Use a knife |
| CUT | Use a knife on |
| CUT | Use a pair of scissors |
| CUT | Use knife |
| CUT | Use scissors |
| CUT | Use scissors ... or a computer command |
| CUT | Use scissors on |
| CUT | Use scissors on paper |
| CUT | Use scissors or a knife |
| CUT | Use shears |
| CUT | Use the scissors on |
| CUT | Used scissors |
| CUT | Well-muscled, informally |
| CUT | What a baker may do with a knife to get a desired shape |
| CUT | What a director might yell |
| CUT | What a director says to end a scene |
| CUT | What a director shouts to end a take |
| CUT | What a director yells to end the scene? |
| CUT | What a director yells to stop a scene |
| CUT | What a director yells to stop filming a scene |
| CUT | What a scalpel will do |
| CUT | What barbers do to hair |
| CUT | What pruning shears do |
| CUT | What scalpels do |
| CUT | What scissors do |
| CUT | What shears do |
| CUT | What you do to your hair at a barber shop |
| CUT | What you do with scissors |
| CUT | With 51-Across, dance |
| CUT | With the circled letters, a hint to solving seven Across clues |
| CUT | Word after clean or clear |
| CUT | Word that can follow the first parts of 17- and 58-Across and 11- and 33-Down |
| CUT | Word with clean or clear |
| CUT | Wound from a knife |
| CUT | Wound inflicted by a sharp edged object |
| CUT | Write out |
| CUT | You might put a Band-Aid on one |
| CUT | [CLUED ELSEWHERE] |
| CUT | __ and paste |
| CUT | ___ and paste |
| CUT | ___ and paste (keyboard actions) |
| CUT | ___ class (play hooky) |
| CUT | ___ corners (eliminate some steps) |
| CUT | ___ corners (take shortcuts) |
| CUT | ___ from the same cloth |
| CUT | ___ from the same cloth (very similar) |
| CUT | ___ out for (naturally able) |
| CUT | ___ the Rope (popular game app) |
| CUT | ___ the cord (stop subscribing to cable) |
| CUT | ___ to the chase (get to the point) |
| CUT | ____ glass |
| CUT | ___-and-dried (routine) |
| CUT | ___-throat competition (intense) |