Thanks--I figured out that I could check the context of the word as I was editing so I left that section alone. Another complicating factor is that the hero is going deaf and there are some places where dialogue is written as he might be mishearing it (like "rrrrr" instead of "better").
It took a while to correct all the misspellings and remove the tags that identified them. Hard to believe the publisher wouldn't fix this for such a big-name author! I posted on their Facebook because I didn't find contact info other than for submissions.