Related Clues:

• Class issues perhaps taken up by teacher
• Pope works
• These exams sometimes tax schoolchildren, for a start
• Pitch examinations?
• Tries to speak in middle of a lesson
• Examinations?
• They have become ordeals for participants and spectators!
• Attempts, writing
• Endeavours, for example, to board English ship
• Wood and marble statue - it is seen in choral work
• Disquisitions
• Major cricket matches
• Makes experimental attempts to produce literary work
• Attempts by Hazlitt, perhaps
• Attempts to have chance to speak in leaderless muddle