Related Clues:

• A horse's cough
• Put up with work as drudge
• Cut - mediocre journalist
• Cut - literary drudge - work horse
• Chop roughly - mediocre journalist
• Cut roughly - routine writer
• Chop - reporter
• Journalist gets chop
• Cut crudely
• Journalistic drudge (for the chop?)
• Access illegally, as computer files
• Untalented writer
• Attempt a computer crime
• Break into, as a computer
• Scribbler