ERASURES

Manuscript smudges

• Blank spaces, perhaps

• Certain strikeouts

• Crossword solvers' smudges

• Degaussings

• Delers' choices

• Deletions

• Disappearing acts?

• Effacements

• Eliminations

• Errata reducers

• Evidence of changes

• Evidence of errors

• Evidence of revisions

• Indications of check tampering

• Indications of goofs

• Indications that things have changed?

• Lost formulae on the blackboard

• Marks indicating eliminations

• Mistake indicators

• Obliterations

• Past mistakes, say

• Puzzle solvers' streaks

• Removals

• Rubbed-out spots

• Signs of censorship

• Slate-cleaning acts

• Smudges made by crossword solvers

• Some corrections

• Some rub-outs

• Strikeouts?

• Take out signs?

• Take-out places?

• They suggest errors

• What smudges may indicate

• Wipeouts