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For fixed $r\ge 2$ and every $\epsilon >0$, some $\delta >0$ has the following property for all sufficiently large $n$: a graph with fewer than $\delta n^r$ copies of $K_r$ can be made $K_r$-free by deleting at most $\epsilon n^2$ edges. A Szemerédi regularity lemma partition and the regular clique counting lemma prove this. It converts sparse counts of a forbidden clique into a small edit distance from clique-freeness.