Answer:

hack

Answer	Crossword Clue
HACK	Life ... (timesaving trick)
HACK	Untalented writer
HACK	Cabbie

HACK	Unrespected writer
HACK	Be a high-tech criminal
HACK	Break (into)
HACK	Stomach
HACK	Commit a computer crime
HACK	Symptom of catarrh
HACK	Triter writer?
HACK	Take an ax to

HACK	ATTEMPT A BREAK-IN
HACK	Unlikely candidate for a Pulitzer
HACK	Unskilled writer
HACK	Chop none too carefully
HACK	Literary drudge