Historical clue formulations

• David Foster Wallace's "Tense Present," e.g. — 2026-07-19
• Many a political piece — 2026-06-27
• Certain exposition — 2026-04-24
• Bar exam component — 2026-02-04
• Lit class assignment — 2025-11-19
• Bit of writing from Joan Didion — 2025-10-14
• Writing assignment — 2025-07-23
• Many a piece of writing by Joan Didion — 2025-02-23
• Assignment often graded with a red pen — 2025-01-08
• Assignment outsourced to ChatGPT, perhaps — 2024-11-12
• Part of many 34-Down — 2024-01-06
• Many a homework assignment — 2023-10-08
• Bacon bit? — 2023-05-26
• Blue book filler — 2022-07-10
• College application part — 2022-01-25
• Writing assignment — 2021-08-25
• Time-consuming assignment to grade — 2021-08-15
• Work from Roxane Gay or Jia Tolentino — 2021-06-20
• One in a stack for an English teacher to grade — 2021-05-04
• Feature of The New York Review of Books — 2021-04-09
• SAT section eliminated by the College Board in 2021 — 2021-03-21
• Assignment that sounds like its third and fourth letters — 2021-01-08
• Writing by John Locke or Alexander Pope — 2020-11-10
• Op-ed piece, e.g. — 2020-11-09
• Part of a test that may produce a hand cramp — 2020-11-02
• Writing in a blue book — 2020-05-05
• Piece for an editorial page — 2020-04-21
• Attempt — 2020-03-21
• Assignment that might have a page limit — 2020-01-05
• College app attachment — 2019-12-04
• Lamb offering — 2019-08-25
• English class assignment — 2019-06-18
• Attempt — 2019-01-10
• Think piece — 2018-09-21
• Try — 2018-05-02
• English class assignment — 2018-04-30
• Optional part of the SAT — 2018-04-10
• Op-ed, e.g. — 2018-03-02
• Many a Slate article — 2017-10-25
• The New Yorker piece — 2017-09-17
• Application requirement, maybe — 2017-09-16
• Try — 2017-05-13
• Op-ed, e.g. — 2016-07-13
• Will work — 2016-07-03
• Written contest entry, say — 2016-04-27
• English class assignment — 2016-03-21
• Op-ed piece — 2015-11-23
• Op-ed piece — 2015-09-30
• Salon offering — 2015-08-07
• Endeavor — 2015-07-02