Related Clues:

• A banner of films and books
• He bans books and films
• It seems as if his forbidding task needs a photoelectric cell, by the sound of it
• Official with the power to prohibit distribution of material
• Remove offensive content
• Bleeping official
• Cut bits from, maybe
• Reported source of smoke screen
• Cut from ear to ear?
• Church partners or Roman official
• Wielder of blue pencil
• Check contents of letter, play etc with a view to deleting passages
• Crones (anag) — (person with powers to) make cuts in letters, plays etc
• Curse bleeper
• Editor perhaps cuts something down to size