The Clue
Some SAT answers (6 letter answer)
The Answer
ESSAYS
Tags
Notes
The answer ESSAYS is common and appears about once every 300 puzzles.
Related Clues
Attempts
Themes
Trials
Bacon bits
Bacon bits?
Bacon pieces
Bacon products
Elianic efforts
Emerson collection
Emerson products
Emerson works
Lamb output
Lamb pieces
Lamb products
Lamb specialties
Lamb's output
Lamb's products
Literary pieces
Literary works
Montaigne output
Prosaic output?
Repplier products
School papers
Some nonfiction
Some schoolwork
Test formats
Belles-lettres, perhaps
College application parts
E.B. White output
Edmund Wilson's forte
Elianic works
Joseph Addison output
National Review pieces
Op-ed pieces
Pieces by Thomas Paine
Some collegiate output
Some extended arguments
Classic Montaigne work of 1580
Features of The New York Review of Books
Much H. L. Mencken output
Two Ralph Waldo Emerson collections
Definition
ESSAY as a noun:
1. an analytic or interpretive literary composition
2. a tentative attempt
ESSAY as a verb:
1. (try, seek, attempt, essay, assay) = make an effort or attempt; "He tried to shake off his fears"; "The infant had essayed a few wobbly steps"; "The police attempted to stop the thief"; "He sought to improve himself"; "She always seeks to do good in the world"
2. (test, prove, try, try out, examine, essay) = put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to; "This approach has been tried with good results"; "Test this recipe"