| Short - or rough - cut (4) | The Guardian Quick | 03 Oct 2025 | 
          
            | Chop | The Telegraph Quick | 21 Sep 2025 | 
          
            | Break into, digitally | USA Today | 12 Sep 2025 | 
          
            | Cut with rough blows (4) | Mirror Classic | 01 Sep 2025 | 
          
            | Tired old writer getting the chop? | The Telegraph Cryptic | 25 Aug 2025 | 
          
            | Hew | The Telegraph Quick | 11 Aug 2025 | 
          
            | Access secretly, as a database |  |  | 
          
            | Cut roughly or untidily (4) |  |  | 
          
            | Break into a computer | USA Today Quick | 10 Jul 2025 | 
          
            | Use computer to gain unauthorised access (4) |  |  | 
          
            | Breach the mainframe, maybe |  |  | 
          
            | Angling tip, say - or illegal access to a PC (4) |  |  | 
          
            | Chop crudly (4) |  |  | 
          
            | Break into a computer | Puzzler Backwords | 30 May 2025 | 
          
            | Poor writer initially hires a retired barrister | The Telegraph Toughie | 27 May 2025 | 
          
            | Horse in a hut with its head out (4) |  |  | 
          
            | Cope with | The Telegraph Quick | 23 May 2025 | 
          
            | Aim a kick at the horse (4) |  |  | 
          
            | Chop violently | Mirror Tea Time | 11 May 2025 | 
          
            | Use computer to break in horse | The Telegraph Cryptic | 30 Apr 2025 | 
          
            | Cope with basic accommodation, but not at first |  |  | 
          
            | Journalist a chop a uninvited login (4) |  |  | 
          
            | Journalist - chop - uninvited login (4) | The Guardian Quick | 21 Apr 2025 | 
          
            | Journalist cut (4) |  |  | 
          
            | Coder's stopgap solution | Wall Street Journal | 15 Apr 2025 | 
          
            | Chop irregularly (4) |  |  | 
          
            | Journalist has a cough | Mirror Cryptic | 02 Apr 2025 | 
          
            | Chop | Mirror Quick | 02 Apr 2025 | 
          
            | Chop roughly; type of 26 Down? | The Telegraph Cross Atlantic | 18 Mar 2025 | 
          
            | Cope, - it (coll) (4) |  |  | 
          
            | Mangle bear? |  |  | 
          
            | Poor writer gets a cut (4) |  |  | 
          
            | Poor writer |  |  | 
          
            | Cut or chop roughly |  |  | 
          
            | Be a bad PC user |  |  | 
          
            | Chop wildly | Mirror Classic | 04 Jan 2025 | 
          
            | Break into computer | The Sun Two Speed | 03 Jan 2025 | 
          
            | Unskilled writer to suffer | The Sun Two Speed | 03 Jan 2025 | 
          
            | Hew (4) | The Guardian Quick | 03 Jan 2025 | 
          
            | Illicitly enter a computer network |  |  | 
          
            | Break into, as a computer |  |  | 
          
            | Life __ (productivity tip) |  |  | 
          
            | Overrated writer |  |  | 
          
            | Life ___ (efficiency tip) | USA Today | 20 Nov 2024 | 
          
            | Untalented author | Wall Street Journal | 18 Nov 2024 | 
          
            | Bad writer | Thomas Joseph | 08 Nov 2024 | 
          
            | Be like a cyber criminal | Family Time | 03 Nov 2024 | 
          
            | Hired horse (4) |  |  | 
          
            | Unskilled writer (4) |  |  | 
          
            | Everyday horse (4) |  |  | 
          
            | Computer breach; to chop (4) |  |  | 
          
            | Computer misdeed |  |  | 
          
            | Chop crudely | Newsday | 25 Sep 2024 | 
          
            | Kick the hired horse |  |  | 
          
            | Break in old horse |  |  | 
          
            | Reporter has a cough (4) |  |  | 
          
            | Chop; scribbler | The Telegraph Quick | 14 Sep 2024 | 
          
            | Worn-out horse; chop | The Times Concise | 13 Sep 2024 | 
          
            | Cut technique for using one's time more efficiently (4) |  |  | 
          
            | Cabbie | Eugene Sheffer | 10 Aug 2024 | 
          
            | Cybersecurity event | LA Times Daily | 02 Aug 2024 | 
          
            | Expose the vulnerabilities of, in a way | New York Times | 31 Jul 2024 | 
          
            | Trite writer |  |  | 
          
            | Cut with heavy blows (4) |  |  | 
          
            | A technique for managing one's time or activities more efficiently (4) |  |  | 
          
            | Chop at (4) |  |  | 
          
            | Commit a computer crime |  |  | 
          
            | Chop wildly (4) | Mirror Classic | 24 Jun 2024 | 
          
            | Trick | The Telegraph Cross Atlantic | 24 Jun 2024 | 
          
            | A kick from a horse (4) |  |  | 
          
            | Chop violently | Mirror Tea Time | 11 Jun 2024 | 
          
            | Dull, uninspired writer (4) |  |  | 
          
            | Break into computer of poor journalist (4) | The Guardian Quiptic | 26 May 2024 | 
          
            | Improvised solution | Newsday | 26 May 2024 | 
          
            | Bad journalist? (4) |  |  | 
          
            | Break into a computer (4) | Puzzler | 08 May 2024 | 
          
            | Tabloid reporter, to some |  |  | 
          
            | Cut jade (4) |  |  | 
          
            | Unoriginal writer (4) |  |  | 
          
            | Break into, with a computer |  |  | 
          
            | Break into a computer | Puzzler Backwords | 15 Mar 2024 | 
          
            | Go riding with journalist (4) |  |  | 
          
            | Horse for ordinary riding (4) |  |  | 
          
            | Writer to get a kick out of? (4) |  |  | 
          
            | Break into, digitally | Universal | 09 Feb 2024 | 
          
            | Chop at roughly (4) |  |  | 
          
            | Make cuts with a commercial sort of writer (4) |  |  | 
          
            | Chop roughly (4) |  |  | 
          
            | Bad writer | Thomas Joseph | 01 Feb 2024 | 
          
            | Reporter has a bad cough |  |  | 
          
            | Shelley -, actress who played Tiffany Welles in US television series Charlie's Angels from 1979-80 | Mirror Quiz | 11 Jan 2024 | 
          
            | Chop up hut, missing its roof (4) |  |  | 
          
            | Shelley -, actress who played Tiffany Welles in US television series Charlie's Angels from 1979-80 (4) |  |  | 
          
            | Break into, as a computer |  |  | 
          
            | Handy trick | New York Times | 23 Dec 2023 | 
          
            | Chop with an ax | USA Today | 20 Dec 2023 | 
          
            | Hampton ___, method of pruning perennials after they've flowered (4) |  |  | 
          
            | Chop with a cleaver |  |  | 
          
            | Uninspired writer | The Guardian Quick | 02 Nov 2023 | 
          
            | Cut crudely | Newsday | 24 Sep 2023 | 
          
            | Break into, digitally | Universal | 15 Sep 2023 | 
          
            | Chop; journalist | The Times Concise | 21 Jul 2023 | 
          
            | Nag poor journalist? | The Times Cryptic | 19 Jul 2023 | 
          
            | Chop; scribbler | The Telegraph Quick | 11 Jun 2023 | 
          
            | Bad writer | Thomas Joseph | 12 Apr 2023 | 
          
            | Cabbie | Eugene Sheffer | 24 Mar 2023 | 
          
            | Commit a cyber crime, say |  |  | 
          
            | Journalist in hut putting out leader | The Times Cryptic | 20 Dec 2022 | 
          
            | Trick that makes life easier | USA Today | 20 Dec 2022 | 
          
            | Cab driver | Newsday | 23 Oct 2022 | 
          
            | Break into, digitally | Universal | 16 Sep 2022 | 
          
            | Horse kept only for hire | The Guardian Quick | 06 Sep 2022 | 
          
            | Journalist, heading away from hut | The Times Cryptic | 09 Aug 2022 | 
          
            | Break into, like a computer | Universal | 09 Jun 2022 | 
          
            | Cough | The Telegraph Quick | 14 May 2022 | 
          
            | ''Life'' lesson | Newsday | 07 May 2022 | 
          
            | Cut off crudely | Newsday | 03 Apr 2022 | 
          
            | Break-in, nowadays | LA Times Daily | 06 Mar 2022 | 
          
            | Break-in, nowadays | The Washington Post | 06 Mar 2022 | 
          
            | Old horse‘s kick |  |  | 
          
            | Old horse's kick | The Guardian Cryptic | 07 Feb 2022 | 
          
            | Cut roughly | The Times Concise | 17 Dec 2021 | 
          
            | Clumsily saw hairline crack at the edges | Irish Times Crosaire | 10 Dec 2021 | 
          
            | "The Great ___," 2019 documentary which was Emmy-nominated for Outstanding Documentary |  |  | 
          
            | Cybersecurity concern | LA Times Daily | 24 Sep 2021 | 
          
            | Cybersecurity concern | The Washington Post | 24 Sep 2021 | 
          
            | Chop with a machete | USA Today | 27 Aug 2021 | 
          
            | Cut in crime affecting a PC | The Telegraph Toughie | 10 Aug 2021 | 
          
            | Cut crudely | Newsday | 18 Jul 2021 | 
          
            | Remove rashly | Newsday | 08 Apr 2021 | 
          
            | Untalented writer | Wall Street Journal | 29 Mar 2021 | 
          
            | Illegal accessing, of a sort | New York Times | 12 Mar 2021 | 
          
            | Cope, with 'it' | New York Times | 12 Feb 2021 | 
          
            | Clumsily saw hairline crack at the edges | Irish Times Crosaire | 20 Jan 2021 | 
          
            | Cut roof off of shelter | The Telegraph Toughie | 15 Jan 2021 | 
          
            | Do some malicious coding | Universal | 20 Dec 2020 | 
          
            | Grub Street journalist's worn-out horse |  |  | 
          
            | Computer break-in | Universal | 05 Oct 2020 | 
          
            | Access illegally, as a computer |  |  | 
          
            | Share? Not with journalist |  |  | 
          
            | Chop | Canadiana | 27 Jul 2020 | 
          
            | Talentless writer | LA Times Daily | 21 May 2020 | 
          
            | Talentless writer | The Washington Post | 21 May 2020 | 
          
            | Programmer's workaround | USA Today | 17 May 2020 | 
          
            | Cope with | LA Times Daily | 14 Feb 2020 | 
          
            | Cope with | The Washington Post | 14 Feb 2020 | 
          
            | Mediocre journalist's horse |  |  | 
          
            | Break into, as a computer |  |  | 
          
            | Poor journalist getting chop |  |  | 
          
            | Modest structure has no opening for writer |  |  | 
          
            | Break into, as a computer |  |  | 
          
            | Kick person suffering from overwork |  |  | 
          
            | Cut made by journalist |  |  | 
          
            | Mediocre journalist getting the chop? |  |  | 
          
            | Even a dull writer may deliver a kick |  |  | 
          
            | Cut made by journalist |  |  | 
          
            | Horse to kick stomach |  |  | 
          
            | Blowing top, hit journalist |  |  | 
          
            | Hut, entrance gone, fell |  |  | 
          
            | 4   Break in without permission to see-saw |  |  | 
          
            | Pick mercenary, but lacking old gun |  |  |