- ESSAY
- Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin, e.g.
- Dissertation
- Emerson output
- John Feinstein piece
- Magazine piece
- Op-ed offering
- Opinion piece
- Photo-__ (pictorial story)
- Piece of Lamb?
- Written exam
- Montaigne masterpiece
- Op-ed piece
- Short composition
- The Myth of Sisyphus, for example
- Bacon bit
- Emerson product
- Bacon piece
- Lamb specialty
- School assignment
- Swift work?
- Optional SAT component
- Argumentative piece
- Piece of writing often BS'ed by students
- Hot take, perhaps
- Slanted lines?
- College application piece
- Novel assignment
- Blue-book filler, perhaps
- Blue book exam
- College application part
- College application requirement
- SAT component
- SAT section
- Section of the SAT
- Feature in "The Atlantic"
- Piece from Chuck Klosterman
- Five-paragraph homework assignment
- English assignment
- Medium.com post
- Medium.com posting
- Classroom assignment
- Opinionated work
- Prose piece
- English homework, maybe
- Attempt
- Nonfiction piece
- Emerson specialty
- Prose composition
- Student writing
- Test you can't really guess on
- Class paper
- Test composition
- Written test
- Student's composition
- Typical Montaigne work
- Blue-book composition
- Montaigne piece
- The Federalist Papers piece
- Piece of Bacon
- School paper
- Final component, maybe
- Slate work
- One may develop an opinion
- Punishment for school misbehavior, maybe
- One may be persuasive
- Bacon product
- Emerson's "Circles," for instance
- English homework, often
- Editorial piece
- English exam finale, often
- Kind of test question
- Piece of Lamb or Bacon
- Test type
- Writing assignment
- Alexander Pope piece
- Lamb product
- Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience," for one
- Written test type
- Alexander Pope work
- Think piece
- High school composition
- Blue-book filler, maybe
- English paper, often
- Scholarship entry, sometimes
- Gore Vidal piece, perhaps
- Part of a history test, sometimes
- Part of many a history test
- Written composition
- Blue book filler
- Piece with a purpose
- Position paper
- Blue book test answer
- Gore Vidal composition
- Kind of test answer
- National Review piece
- Part of a Social Studies test
- Long answer on a test
- Long test answer
- Writing contest entry, often
- Lamb piece
- Lamb serving
- Part of many an English exam
- Social Studies assignment
- The New Yorker piece
- Emerson effort
- English class assignment
- English homework
- English paper
- History class homework, perhaps
- Writing class assignment
- College application piece, perhaps
- Composition
- English final exam, perhaps
- Montaigne's writing form
- Analytic writing
- College application requirement, often
- English homework, perhaps
- Op-ed piece, usually
- Exam type
- Final exam, maybe
- George Will piece
- Literary composition
- School composition
- Short piece on a given subject
- David Sedaris piece
- College applicant's piece of writing
- College application component
- Many a work by 5-Down
- Part of a college application
- Philosophy test component
- Pundit's piece
- History class requirement
- Thinkpiece, for example
- Endeavor
- Theme
- Bacon paper
- English class paper
- Short literary work
- Op-Ed piece, for one
- Try
- Type of test
- Exam segment
- Blue book entry
- Gore Vidal work
- English test item
- New SAT component
- Samuel Johnson work
- Common college admission requirement
- Emerson work
- English test component
- Pope piece
- Op-ed column, e.g.
- SAT part
- Samuel Johnson's "The False Alarm," e.g.
- Op-Ed piece, e.g.
- A literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything: Huxley
- The Federalist component
- Contest entry
- Exam type you can't guess on
- SAT segment
- Common college admissions requirement
- Homework assignment
- Swift's "A Modest Proposal," e.g.
- History test component
- History test section, often
- Lamb creation
- Longish blog post
- Christopher Hitchens work
- David Sedaris work
- Test answer in a blue book
- College paper
- Huffington Post piece
- Test type you can't really guess on
- Me Talk Pretty One Day piece
- Bacon serving?
- Outlet for one's thoughts
- SAT part that's judged
- Thoreau work
- Bacon work
- Composed piece
- Final ordeal, perhaps
- History class assignment
- Bacon output
- Long exam answer
- Op-ed piece, say
- Position paper, e.g.
- A college applicant may have to write one
- Montaigne work
- Didion work
- A 48-Down may include one
- Class assignment
- Many an op-ed piece
- One of ten in Baldwin's "Notes of a Native Son"
- Pope's "An __ on Criticism"
- Twain's "Taming the Bicycle," e.g.
- Literary work that sounds like two of its letters
- Unlikely assignment from a math teacher
- Lengthy exam answer
- Lengthy test answer
- Literary form
- Piece of one's mind?
- Writing contest entry
- Writing contest entry, maybe
- Writing class writing assignment
- How I Spent My Summer Vacation, e.g.
- History homework
- English Lit assignment
- English-exam element
- Francis Bacon product
- Exam composition
- Exam part, often
- Exam part, perhaps
- Long-answer question
- Emerson piece
- Exam question
- Student's homework
- Civil Disobedience, e.g.
- Test part, perhaps
- Foucault product
- Thoreau composition
- Addison and Steele piece
- High-school exam part
- Take a crack at
- Test question, maybe
- Emerson opus
- Part of some exams
- Piece of prose
- Exam portion, perhaps
- Paper piece
- 55 Down portion, often
- Short prose piece
- College application portion
- Short paper
- Foreword, frequently
- Part of some history exams
- Put to the test
- Short literary piece
- Written opinion
- Any of the Federalist Papers
- Interpretative piece
- Multi-paragraph test answer
- Pundit piece
- Op-ed, for instance
- Speculative prose
- Thoreau piece
- Alexander Pope product
- Short opinion piece
- Take a stab at
- Test answer written in paragraphs
- Type of magazine piece
- Written argument
- English class composition
- Newspaper opinion piece
- Prose propounding a position
- Thought provoker
- Op-Ed piece, often
- Work by Elia
- Grade school assignment
- Expository writing class assignment
- Part of the SAT
- Magazine piece, often
- Question type
- Thoreau tract
- Brief composition.
- Disquisition.
- Lengthy dissertation.
- Gem from Montaigne.
- Agnes Repplier's forte.
- Pope wrote one on "Man."
- The late Miss Repplier's specialty.
- Lamb's forte.
- School homework.
- Effort to accomplish something.
- Nonfiction item.
- Pope's "___ on Man."
- Lionel Trilling specialty.
- Emerson's forte.
- Tract.
- Tractate.
- Literary piece.
- Literary product.
- Trial.
- Literary work.
- Piece of writing.
- School theme.
- An ___ on Man.
- Initial and tentative effort.
- Lamb work.
- Dwight Macdonald's specialty.
- E. B. White specialty.
- James Baldwin's forte.
- Term paper.
- Make an effort.
- E. B. White piece.
- Literary effort.
- Effort
- Addison's forte
- Try out
- Vehicle for Steele or Mencken
- Elian output
- Product of Bacon or Lamb
- Treatise
- Work by 40 Across
- Peter Quennell product
- Tatler offering
- Lamb's specialty
- Repplier product
- Try one's hand at
- Elian work
- Pope's "An ___ on Criticism"
- Elian piece
- Specialty of 17 Across
- Elia product
- Belloc work
- De Quincey product
- Venture
- Work from S.A.?
- Poetic Pope product
- School project
- Locke opus
- Repplier work
- Strive
- Specialty of 55 Down
- Macaulay product
- Elia's specialty
- Montaigne's specialty
- Dryden work
- Joseph Addison product
- New Republic piece
- Pope's "An _____ on Man"
- Federalist paper
- Test format, often
- Virginia Woolf piece
- E.G. White piece
- Russell Baker specialty
- Susan Sontag piece
- Assignment that sounds like its third and fourth letters
- Feature of The New York Review of Books
- One in a stack for an English teacher to grade
- SAT section eliminated by the College Board in 2021
- Time-consuming assignment to grade
- Work from Roxane Gay or Jia Tolentino
- 16-Across work
- Calvin Trillin piece
- Article in Harper's or The Atlantic
- Elianic work
- Piece in Harper's
- Written test answer
- How I Spent My Summer Vacation, maybe
- Paper
- A Modest Proposal, e.g.
- Very long-winded answer
- Bacon or Lamb product
- Composition with a viewpoint
- Time piece?
- Journal submission
- Piece in The New Republic
- Analytic work
- Op-ed, typically
- Lamb or Bacon piece
- Piece of schoolwork
- College application need
- Frank Rich piece
- Locke work
- Maureen Dowd piece
- Nora Ephron work
- Part of many a college application
- Steele work
- Alternative to true-false or multiple-choice
- It's definitely not the short answer
- Swift composition
- College applicant's composition
- Kind of test ... or a phonetic hint to 17-, 25-, 36-, 47- and 57-Across
- Piece of Bacon or Lamb
- Piece of Slate, e.g.
- Part of a G.E.D. exam
- Salon offering
- Op-ed, e.g.
- Will work
- Written contest entry, say
- Application requirement, maybe
- Many a Slate article
- Optional part of the SAT
- College app attachment
- Lamb offering
- Assignment that might have a page limit
- Part of a test that may produce a hand cramp
- Piece for an editorial page
- Writing by John Locke or Alexander Pope
- Writing in a blue book
- Cause of class struggle?
- Many a homework assignment
- Part of many 34-Down
- Piece with a point (5)
- It has a point
- Test answer, maybe
- With 11-Down, blue-book exam
- Elia piece
- Pope work
- Elia writing
- Lamb writing
- Twain piece
- What reporter writes on rocker
- Write-up in mag
- Elia offering
- Liner notes, at times
- Assignment in English
- Civil Disobedience is one
- Nora Ephron's "A Few Words About Breasts," for one
- Written response on an exam, perhaps
- Component of a college application
- Written portion of an exam
- ___ question
- Long-form piece, perhaps
- E.B. White work
- Ralph Waldo Emerson piece
- The Atlantic piece
- Homework assignment, sometimes
- W.E.B. Du Bois work
- Emerson's "Self-Reliance," for one
- English test, perhaps
- Homework assignment in English, often
- Schoolboy's grammatical exercise
- College applicant's creation
- English test requirement
- Test format
- English test requirement, often
- Gore Vidal piece
- Test assignment, sometimes
- Test format, sometimes
- Test format, perhaps
- Certain English assignment
- History homework, sometimes
- School assignment, perhaps
- Calvin Trillin piece, perhaps
- Exam part, sometimes
- Op-Ed article
- Feature in Harper's or The Atlantic
- Long-form writing assignment
- English test segment, perhaps
- How I Spent My Summer, often
- Charles Lamb piece
- English composition
- Long English assignment
- Certain homework assignment
- English class work
- English exam finale, sometimes
- English-exam element, often
- Longish English assignment
- Part of an English exam, often
- Common English assignment
- Long homework assignment
- Long written piece
- Longish written piece
- Opinion piece, essentially
- Product in a blue book
- Common App component
- One-pager, for one
- Response to a prompt
- Student paper
- A student may plagiarize one
- Assignment that may have a bibliography
- Assignment with an argument
- College application section, often
- English exam, often
- Piece of writing that sounds like its third and fourth letters
- Writing-intensive test type
- It can set a college application apart
- Often-lengthy exam format
- Part of a college application, often
- Persuasive assignment
- Writing-intensive 27-Across type
- Written assignment
- College application part, often
- Lengthy theme
- Montaigne opus
- Hawthorne vehicle
- School report
- Elia output
- Scholarly dissertation
- Blue book question
- Kind of exam
- Steele product
- Commentary
- Emerson forte
- Give it the old college try
- English 101 assignment
- English test, sometimes
- Give it a shot
- Test segment, perhaps
- Personal prose unit
- Written analysis
- Alternative to multiple choice
- Article in Harper's
- Magazine piece, sometimes
- Part of a social studies test, often
- Schoolboy's writing exercise
- Blue book topic
- English assignment, sometimes
- Bacon or Lamb work
- English exam ender, perhaps
- English exam part
- Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience," e.g.
- End of an English test, perhaps
- Piece from Elia
- Francis Bacon piece
- Lamb or Bacon offering
- Many a New Yorker article
- Harper's article
- In this ___, I will . . .
- Doreen St. Felix work
- English major's assignment
- Many a Claudia Rankine opus
- Many a Morgan Jerkins work
- Student's writing assignment
- Da'Shaun L. Harrison piece
- Piece of nonfiction writing
- Tiffany Midge piece
- Type of nonfiction writing
- Notes on Camp is one
- Composition for a Lit class
- English teacher's assignment
- Former SAT section that sounds like the first two letters of "SAT"
- Haunani-Kay Trask's "The Color of Violence," for example
- Nonfiction piece such as "The Case for Reparations"
- Piece of long-form journalism
- Samantha Irby piece
- English class submission
- Lit class assignment
- Many a Jamaica Kincaid work
- Many a June Jordan work
- Piece of writing with a thesis statement
- Composition assignment
- Composition for a language exam
- Many a Jhumpa Lahiri piece
- Persuasive piece
- Give it a try
- Audre Lorde piece
- Frequent assignment in 60 Down
- It has a body and may be fleshed out
- History final composition
- Literary magazine piece
- English major's composition
- James Baldwin's "Notes of a Native Son," e.g.
- Photo ___ (story told in pictures)
- Safire piece
- Lamb 's tale
- Grader's headache
- It usually has a thesis statement
- Monograph
- Twain's "The Awful German Language," notably
- English exam part, often
- Persuasive writing, maybe
- Student's writing
- Written musings
- College application composition
- Lit teacher's assignment
- Piece in the paper
- Short article, and a hint to completing the titles in the theme answers
- Piece on Substack
- Pupil's paper
- Many a high school test
- Class writing assignment
