| PICKED | Selected the very best editor for it (6) |
| CHOSEN | Selected the Japanese name for Korea (6) |
| CULLED | Selected the best (6) |
| FAISAL | ___ Islam, economics editor for the BBC |
| AMELIA | Earhart who served as aviation editor for "Cosmopolitan" |
| BYWORD | A text editor for mac users |
| INFORMED | At his best, editor passed on the news (8) |
| SISTINE | Site where the new pope is selected, the ... Chapel |
| CREAMED | Selected the best potatoes? (7) |
| FORTIFIED | At the Irish Film Institute, met editor for tea beforehand, but it was made very strong |
| PAPERBAG | As worn by the editor for the party? (5,3) |
| DEPOT | Best editor sent back in warehouse (5) |
| SCREAMED | Second best editor cried (8) |
| ANDREWPIERCE | Consultant Editor for the Daily Mail often seen on TV with Kevin Maguire from the Daily Mirror |
| OPED | Newspaper page containing letters to the editor, for short |
| GOTTHEPUSH | Lost mate of Goethe replaced foremost editor for the leader going to press (3,3,4) |
| PYM | Author of novels including Excellent Women, Quartet in Autumn and A Few Green Leaves who was an assistant editor for the academic journal Africa (3) |
| STEPHANIEFLANDERS | BBC News economics editor (2008 to 2013) and now senior executive editor for economics at Bloomberg News (9,8) |
| SOPEL | Jon, English journalist and former North America editor for BBC News; presenter of The News Agents podcast (5) |
| HEF | Publishing icon who started off as a copy editor for Esquire, familiarly |
