The New Yorker piece

The answer

ESSAY

5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ESSAY answer page.

Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2019; first recorded in 2006. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for ESSAY

Every other clue in this collection answered by ESSAY, most used first.

• Opinion piece - used 88 times, most recently in 2026
• School paper - used 82 times, most recently in 2026
• English class assignment - used 51 times, most recently in 2026
• Op-ed piece - used 43 times, most recently in 2026
• Writing assignment - used 42 times, most recently in 2026
• Think piece - used 37 times, most recently in 2026
• Attempt - used 36 times, most recently in 2020
• English assignment - used 34 times, most recently in 2026
• School assignment - used 26 times, most recently in 2026
• College application part - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
• Test type - used 21 times, most recently in 2026
• Try - used 21 times, most recently in 2018
• Composition - used 18 times, most recently in 2024
• Prose piece - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
• Swift work - used 16 times, most recently in 2024
• Bacon bit? - used 15 times, most recently in 2023
• Blue book filler - used 15 times, most recently in 2022
• English exam finale, often - used 15 times, most recently in 2024
• Lamb product - used 15 times, most recently in 2018
• Bacon piece - used 14 times, most recently in 2020
• Thoreau piece - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
• Emerson product - used 13 times, most recently in 2023
• English composition - used 13 times, most recently in 2015
• Theme - used 13 times, most recently in 2023
• "In this ___ I will ..." - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
• Lamb piece - used 12 times, most recently in 2018
• Literary work - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
• Test format - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
• Bacon product - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
• Magazine piece - used 11 times, most recently in 2015
• Piece of Bacon? - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
• "Civil Disobedience," e.g. - used 10 times, most recently in 2015
• Homework assignment - used 10 times, most recently in 2022
• Op-ed offering - used 10 times, most recently in 2012
• Short opinion piece - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
• Writing class assignment - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• Written assignment - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• College applicant's composition - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• Emerson work - used 9 times, most recently in 2016
• Op-ed piece, e.g. - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
• Common college application requirement - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Lengthy test answer - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
• Part of a college application - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Blue-book composition - used 7 times, most recently in 2015
• Emerson piece - used 7 times, most recently in 2017
• English homework - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
• Lamb specialty - used 7 times, most recently in 2012
• Lamb work - used 7 times, most recently in 2017
• Literary piece. - used 7 times, most recently in 1974
• Piece of Lamb? - used 7 times, most recently in 2019
• Piece of writing - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Written composition - used 7 times, most recently in 2018
• Dissertation - used 6 times, most recently in 2005
• Endeavor - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
• "How I Spent My Summer Vacation," maybe - used 6 times, most recently in 2010
• Position paper - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
• School composition - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Student's composition - used 6 times, most recently in 2017
• Trial. - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
• Writing contest entry - used 6 times, most recently in 2026

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