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Short Of Editor At Work Cutting Back Information

We've checked our database and believe the answer is NEEDING which was last seen in the The Guardian Cryptic crossword.
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We think the answer to this crossword clue is: NEEDING

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noun

• a condition requiring relief

• anything that is necessary but lacking

• the psychological feature that arouses an organism to action toward a desired goal; the reason for the action; that which gives purpose and direction to behavior

• a state of extreme poverty or destitution

verb

• require as useful, just, or proper

• have need of

• have or feel a need for

29%6 Contrarily, editor cutting back is one authors rely on
noun

• a person who enjoys reading

• someone who contracts to receive and pay for a service or a certain number of issues of a publication

• a person who can read; a literate person

• someone who reads manuscripts and judges their suitability for publication

• someone who reads proof in order to find errors and mark corrections

• someone who reads the lessons in a church service; someone ordained in a minor order of the Roman Catholic Church

• a public lecturer at certain universities

• one of a series of texts for students learning to read

29%7Cutting back, cutting total level
noun

• one of several parallel layers of material arranged one on top of another (such as a layer of tissue or cells in an organism or a layer of sedimentary rock)

• people having the same social, economic, or educational status

• an abstract place usually conceived as having depth

• a subpopulation divided into a stratified sampling

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The Guardian Cryptic21 Oct 2013 Across 22
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