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
• Written exam format
• Many a piece of writing by Joan Didion
• Addison output
• Book report, e.g.
• Final challenge, perhaps
• History assignment
• Literature exam component
• Input for some plagiarism detectors
• Bit of writing from Joan Didion
• You can write it if you try
• Rebecca Solnit piece
• Bar exam component
• Certain exposition
• Think you can write one? Have a go!
• Composition of paper?
• Many a political piece
• David Foster Wallace's "Tense Present," e.g.
• Many a David Foster Wallace piece