Clues for the word "ESSAY"
We've had 506 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 1053 times in crosswords. It was last seen in LA Times crossword on January 15, 2025.
Definition of essay
- n. - An effort made, or exertion of body or mind, for the performance of anything; a trial; attempt; as, to make an essay to benefit a friend.
- n. - A composition treating of any particular subject; -- usually shorter and less methodical than a formal, finished treatise; as, an essay on the life and writings of Homer; an essay on fossils, or on commerce.
- n. - An assay. See Assay, n.
- n. - To exert one's power or faculties upon; to make an effort to perform; to attempt; to endeavor; to make experiment or trial of; to try.
- n. - To test the value and purity of (metals); to assay. See Assay.
Referring Clues
- Attempt
- Russell Baker specialty
- Lamb product
- School assignment
- Opinionated work
- 16-Across work
- Bacon product
- Calvin Trillin piece
- "Civil Disobedience," e.g.
- Swift work
- English exam finale, often
- Bacon piece
- Emerson work
- Article in Harper's or The Atlantic
- Blue-book filler
- Piece in Harper's
- English paper
- Think piece
- With 64-Across, a student's challenge
- Pope production
- Test format
- Bacon bit
- College application part
- "How I Spent My Summer Vacation," maybe
- Paper
- Op-ed piece
- Emerson piece
- Very long-winded answer
- "A Modest Proposal," e.g.
- Lamb specialty
- English assignment
- Time piece?
- Composition with a viewpoint
- Bacon or Lamb product
- Opinion piece
- Op-ed piece, e.g.
- Journal submission
- Blue book filler
- Prose piece
- Bacon piece
- Piece in The New Republic
- Analytic work
- Op-ed, typically
- Writing contest entry
- Theme
- Swift's "A Modest Proposal," e.g.
- Lamb or Bacon piece
- Pundit's piece
- Part of a college application
- Lamb piece
- Test type
- Piece of Lamb?
- Alexander Pope work
- Kind of test question
- 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
- Piece with a purpose
- Position paper
- Piece of Bacon?
- Blue book test answer
- Writing contest entry, often
- Gore Vidal composition
- Kind of test answer
- Long test answer
- National Review piece
- Long answer on a test
- Part of a Social Studies test
- Lamb serving
- Part of many an English exam
- Social Studies assignment
- Op-ed offering
- Writing class assignment
- Montaigne's writing form
- Emerson effort
- English homework
- English class assignment
- "The New Yorker" piece
- Class paper
- History class homework, perhaps
- Put to the test
- "The Federalist" component
- Blue book entry
- Exam type you can't guess on
- Expository writing class assignment
- Part of the SAT
- Pope piece
- Thoreau tract
- Question type
- Magazine piece, often
- Piece of Bacon
- School composition
- Piece of Lamb or Bacon
- "A literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything": Huxley
- Bacon bit?
- Op-ed column, e.g.
- Samuel Johnson's "The False Alarm," e.g.
- SAT part
- Try
- English test component
- Common college admission requirement
- The New Yorker piece
- Test you can't really guess on
- New SAT component
- Samuel Johnson work
- Homework assignment
- High-school composition
- English-class assignment
- Addison and Steele piece
- Editorial piece
- High-school exam part
- Endeavor
- Test question, maybe
- Take a crack at
- Thoreau composition
- Foucault product
- Student's composition
- Feature in Harper's or The Atlantic
- Written test type
- Calvin Trillin piece, perhaps
- Exam part, sometimes
- Writing assignment
- Exam type
- Gore Vidal piece
- "How I Spent My Summer Vacation," maybe
- Op-Ed article
- Certain English assignment
- English test requirement, often
- English exam, often
- Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience," for one
- Susan Sontag piece
- Alternative to multiple choice
- Type of test
- Alexander Pope piece
- The Atlantic piece
- Virginia Woolf piece
- Written analysis
- Personal prose unit
- Ralph Waldo Emerson piece
- Literary composition
- Test segment, perhaps
- English test, sometimes
- Give it a shot
- English 101 assignment
- "How I Spent My Summer Vacation," e.g.
- "How I Spent My Summer Vacation" e.g.
- Magazine piece, sometimes
- Piece of prose
- Part of some exams
- Emerson opus
- Composition
- Test format, sometimes
- Lengthy test answer
- English final exam, perhaps
- Contest entry
- College application piece, perhaps
- Montaigne piece
- Long-form writing assignment
- SAT segment
- Article in Harper's
- Test composition
- Paper piece
- Charles Lamb piece
- Blue-book composition
- Piece of schoolwork
- Op-ed piece, usually
- English composition
- Short piece of writing
- History class assignment
- Common college admissions requirement
- Long English assignment
- Emersonian effort
- Exam portion, perhaps
- College application component
- It has a point
- "Civil Disobedience" is one
- English homework, perhaps
- Bit of literature
- College application requirement, often
- Analytic writing
- "How I Spent My Summer," often
- Type of question
- Student's assignment
- George Will piece
- English homework, maybe
- School paper
- Exam format
- English homework, often
- Elia writing
- Lamb writing
- SAT section
- Pope work
- Thoreau piece
- Elia piece
- With 11-Down, blue-book exam
- Steele work
- Dryden work
- History test section, often
- Lamb work
- Longish blog post
- History test component
- Five-paragraph piece, perhaps
- Frank Rich piece
- Short story
- Nora Ephron work
- College application need
- 55 Down portion, often
- Final exam, maybe
- Twain piece
- English test segment, perhaps
- Maureen Dowd piece
- Locke work
- Dreaded assingment
- Part of many a college application
- Lamb creation
- Bacon piece?
- Test answer in a blue book
- First tentative step
- Lamb output
- Short piece on a given subject
- Lamb's forte
- Christopher Hitchens work
- Alternative to true-false or multiple-choice
- Part of a social studies test, often
- Time piece
- Schoolboy's writing exercise
- Exam option
- It's definitely not the short answer
- Swift composition
- David Sedaris work
- Lamb paper
- Philosophy test component
- Huffington Post piece
- English Lit assignment
- Piece of Lamb or Bacon?
- English-exam element, often
- Piece of Bacon or Lamb
- College paper
- Kind of test ... or a phonetic hint to 17-, 25-, 36-, 47- and 57-Across
- Piece of Slate, e.g.
- Certain homework assignment
- College applicant's composition
- Test type you can't really guess on
- David Sedaris piece
- English class work
- English exam finale, sometimes
- Grader's headache
- History homework, sometimes
- College application portion
- Blue book topic
- Emerson product
- Part of a G.E.D. exam
- Creative exam
- Salon offering
- "Me Talk Pretty One Day" piece
- Elia offering
- English assignment, sometimes
- Short paper
- Outlet for one's thoughts
- Place to find an argument, perhaps
- Written contest entry, say
- Part of some history exams
- Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience," e.g.
- Foreword, frequently
- Thoreau work
- English exam part
- SAT part that's judged
- George Will will often write one about baseball
- Will work
- A kind of composition
- Op-ed, e.g.
- English exam ender, perhaps
- Bacon serving?
- Lengthy writing assignment
- Written exam feature
- English class assignment, maybe
- Part of an English exam, often
- Emerson composition
- Short literary piece
- Composition for high schoolers
- Bacon work
- Dreaded assignment
- Optional SAT part
- Longish English assignment
- Written opinion
- End of an English test, perhaps
- Application requirement, maybe
- Many a Slate article
- Final ordeal, perhaps
- Composed piece
- Repplier work
- Term paper
- Many a New Yorker article
- Francis Bacon piece
- School theme
- Literary work
- School English project
- Written school assignment
- Written English assignment
- Long writing assignment
- Long written English assignment
- "How I Spent My Summer Vacation," could be one
- "How I Spent My Summer Vacation," perhaps
- Type of test you can't guess on
- Written work from Midwest, for example
- Test that's tough to cheat on
- Test section, often
- Blog entry, maybe
- Prose composition
- Persuasive piece
- "How I Spent My Winter Break," could be one
- Piece in the paper, perhaps
- Vox piece
- Treatise
- College applicant's creation
- Magazine piece, maybe
- Blue-book filler, perhaps
- Write-up in mag
- What reporter writes on rocker
- Liner notes, at times
- Composition of paper?
- On paper, a try
- Writing the points to mention
- Shot for writing?
- Two points to remark upon, in writing
- A student might write one like a shot!
- Try some Bacon or Lamb?
- A shot at writing
- Attempt to report Brownshirts
- Something written for this paper, for instance?
- Attempt - piece of writing
- It usually has a thesis statement
- Try writing
- Written academic work
- Monograph
- Homework, perhaps, heads of school always read aloud
- Attempt - written work
- Writing speech on South Africa
- Writing, having points to express
- Montaigne work
- Twain's "The Awful German Language," notably
- English test, perhaps
- Writing competition
- The Federalist Papers piece
- A shot at composition
- University composition
- Composition of English craft agreement
- Third preacher on Sunday to speak about a trial
- Dissertation
- Try one of William Hazlitt's?
- Short literary piece: attempt
- Attempt easy trip round Sweden
- Atlantic feature
- The writing of letters, for instance
- Writing assignment for English class
- Thesis
- Can you get shot for writing one?
- School piece
- "Notes of a Native Son" e.g.
- Would you write one like a shot?
- Optional part of the SAT
- Op-ed piece, say
- Student's paper such as "What I Did Last Summer"
- Bacon or Lamb work
- Interpretative piece
- Any of the Federalist Papers
- Try the Evening Standard, for instance
- Long homework assignment
- Try to hear leading characters in South Africa?
- Medium.com posting
- Bacon output
- Lamb or Bacon offering
- Long exam answer
- Product in a blue book
- Long written piece
- Multi-paragraph test answer
- Opinion piece, essentially
- AP English exam component
- Written assignment
- Longish written piece
- Position paper, e.g.
- Pundit piece
- Common English assignment
- It's awfully easy to hold a pole. Try!
- Student's writing
- Student's writing assignment
- Piece from Elia
- Literary piece
- Try two ways, say
- Harper's article
- One-pager, for one
- You can write one if you try
- A scholarly effort
- Long written assignment
- English exam part, often
- Response to a prompt
- A college applicant may have to write one
- Nonfiction piece
- Go like a shot!
- Student paper
- Lamb offering
- Common App component
- Op-ed, for instance
- Speculative prose
- Shot for writing?
- College app attachment
- Piece of writing for the Standard, say?
- Assignment that might have a page limit
- Lit teacher’s assignment
- Two points, say, for a try
- Short composition
- Assignment with an argument
- Doreen St. Felix work
- Alexander Pope product
- Take a stab at
- Type of magazine piece
- Piece for an editorial page
- English major's assignment
- Writing in a blue book
- Short opinion piece
- Try something terribly easy around the leisure centre
- Assignment that may have a bibliography
- College application section, often
- Many a Claudia Rankine opus
- College application composition
- Literary output
- Short article, and a hint to completing the titles in the theme answers
- "In this ___, I will ..."
- Test answer written in paragraphs
- A student may plagiarize one
- "How I Spent My Summer Vacation" writing
- A shot at emulating Charlie Lamb
- Written argument
- Writing-intensive test type
- Piece of writing that sounds like its third and fourth letters
- Many a Morgan Jerkins work
- Part of a test that may produce a hand cramp
- Writing by John Locke or Alexander Pope
- Didion work
- Pope's "An ___ on Criticism"
- Part of a college application, often
- Assignment that sounds like its third and fourth letters
- Many an op-ed piece
- Type of nonfiction writing
- SAT section eliminated by the College Board in 2021
- Da'Shaun L. Harrison piece
- Prose paper
- Writing-intensive 27-Across type
- A 48-Down may include one
- One of ten in Baldwin's "Notes of a Native Son"
- One in a stack for an English teacher to grade
- It can set a college application apart
- Tiffany Midge piece
- English final exam, often
- Piece of one's mind
- Twain's "Taming the Bicycle," e.g.
- Work from Roxane Gay or Jia Tolentino
- Time-consuming assignment to grade
- Class assignment
- Piece of nonfiction writing
- Your longest English assignment
- Literary work that sounds like two of its letters
- Former SAT section that sounds like the first two letters of "SAT"
- English teacher's assignment
- "What I Did Over My Summer Vacation" writing
- Composition for a Lit class
- Piece of long-form journalism
- Haunani-Kay Trask's "The Color of Violence," for example
- Samantha Irby piece
- "Notes on Camp" is one
- Nonfiction piece such as "The Case for Reparations"
- Cause of class struggle?
- Unlikely assignment from a math teacher
- Writing contest entry, maybe
- Bit of Lamb
- Maya Angelou piece
- Bacon bit?
- Jia Tolentino piece
- Many a Jamaica Kincaid work
- Piece of writing with a thesis statement
- Lit class assignment
- Lengthy exam answer
- Many an assignment in 9-Down
- Many a homework assignment
- Written homework assignment
- Piece of one's mind?
- Many a June Jordan work
- English class submission
- Literary form
- Something written for this paper, for instance?
- Part of many 34-Down
- Composition assignment
- Many a Jhumpa Lahiri piece
- English class composition
- Composition for a language exam
- Writing class writing assignment
- Long written homework assignment
- Assignment outsourced to ChatGPT, perhaps
- "Poetry Is Not a Luxury," for one
- Many a Saidiya Hartman work
- Assignment often graded with a red pen
Last Seen In
- LA Times - January 15, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - January 15, 2025
- New York Times - January 08, 2025
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - January 07, 2025
- Daily American - January 03, 2025
- LA Times - December 31, 2024
- Daily American - December 26, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - December 24, 2024
- USA Today - December 22, 2024
- USA Today - December 19, 2024
- Mirror Daily - December 18, 2024
- USA Today - December 17, 2024
- Mirror Daily - December 15, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - December 12, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - December 03, 2024
- Mirror Daily - December 01, 2024
- Daily Quick - November 30, 2024
- Mirror Daily - November 18, 2024
- New York Times - November 12, 2024
- USA Today - November 08, 2024
- Mirror Daily - November 04, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - October 12, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - October 08, 2024
- Daily American - September 17, 2024
- USA Today - September 09, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - September 05, 2024
- Mirror Daily - September 04, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - August 19, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - August 05, 2024
- Family Time - August 04, 2024
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