| UK multi-volume ref. work | 25 |
| Twenty-volume ref. work | 23 |
| Respected ref. book | 19 |
| Ref. work whose Compact Edition is sold with a magnifying glass | 63 |
| Ref. work featured in "The Professor and the Madman" | 62 |
| Ref. staple | 11 |
| Multi-volume ref. | 17 |
| Multi-vol. lexicon | 18 |
| Massive ref. work | 17 |
| Major ref. set | 14 |
| Its "Concise" version has more than 1,700 pgs. | 56 |
| Huge ref. work | 14 |
| Heavy ref. work | 15 |
| Heavy ref. | 10 |
| Classic ref. work | 17 |
| British ref. book | 17 |
| Brit. reference that added "uplink" in 2013 | 53 |
| Brit. reference bk. | 19 |
| Brit. reference | 15 |
| Authoritative ref. | 18 |
| 20-vol. reference work | 22 |
| "Half-caf" was added to it in 2012 | 44 |
| Work that's been punningly called a "lex icon": Abbr. | 67 |
| Work requiring oversized shelves, briefly | 41 |
| Work containing about 2.5 million quotations: Abbr. | 51 |
| Wordy tome, for short | 21 |
| Word-lover's ref. book | 26 |
| Word ref. started in 1857 | 25 |
| Wk. that begins with "A-Bazouki" | 42 |
| Where age always goes before beauty, briefly | 44 |
| Well-known dict. | 16 |
| Webster's relative, for short | 33 |
| Voluminous ref. | 15 |
| Voluminous lexicological work: Abbr. | 36 |
| Venerable reference wk. | 23 |
| Venerable reference book from the UK | 36 |
| Venerable ref. | 14 |
| Venerable lexicon: Abbr. | 24 |
| Venerable British ref. set | 26 |
| UK reference set | 16 |
| U.K. reference | 14 |
| U.K. ref. bk. | 13 |
| U.K. lexicological work | 23 |
| Twenty-volume ref. for writers | 30 |
| Twenty-vol. reference | 21 |
| “The Professor and the Madman” subj. | 44 |
| The "definitive record of the English language" | 57 |
| Tell-all bk.: Brit. | 19 |
| Subj. of the book "Treasure-House of the Language" | 60 |
| Subj. of the book "The Meaning of Everything" | 55 |
| Subj. of Simon Winchester's "The Meaning of Everything" | 69 |
| Source with 600,000 words | 25 |
| Shelf-filling ref. work | 23 |
| Shak. is its most-quoted writer | 31 |
| Set of Brit. tomes | 18 |
| Respected ref. work | 19 |
| Reference volume from the UK | 28 |
| Reference book: Abbr. | 21 |
| Ref. work with online subscriptions | 35 |
| Ref. work with more than 300,000 entries | 40 |
| Ref. work that took 70 years to complete | 40 |
| Ref. work that spans 21,730 pages | 33 |
| Ref. work chronicled in "The Professor and the Madman" | 64 |
| Ref. with no substitute | 23 |
| Ref. with no proper nouns in its earliest edition | 49 |
| Ref. with more than 2 1/2 million quotations | 44 |
| Ref. with about 600,000 word-forms | 34 |
| Ref. with about 22,000 pages | 28 |
| Ref. whose last entry is "zyxt" | 41 |
| Ref. tome | 9 |
| Ref. that's been online since 2000 | 38 |
| Ref. that has a zed section | 27 |
| Ref. that added the word "anally" in 2010 | 51 |
| Ref. staple that used to come with a magnifying glass | 53 |
| Ref. room offering | 18 |
| Ref. of note | 12 |
| Ref. last published in 1989 | 27 |
| Ref. conceived of in 1857 by London's Philological Society | 62 |
| Ref. book whose last print edition came out in 1989 | 51 |
| Ref. book whose first edition took 68 years to complete | 55 |
| Ref. book that comes with a magnifying glass | 44 |
| Pub. with over 300,000 entries | 30 |
| Philologists' work, for short | 33 |
| Philologist's ref. | 22 |
| Orthographer's ref. | 23 |
| Often-cited ref. | 16 |
| Oft-cited ref. book | 19 |
| Of which A-Ant was pub. in Jan. 1884 | 36 |
| Noted ref. book | 15 |
| Noted publication of 1933, for short | 36 |
| Multivolume set, for short | 26 |
| Multivolume lex. | 16 |
| Multi-volume ref. work | 22 |
| Multi-vol. reference set | 24 |
| Multi-vol. Brit. ref. | 21 |
| Monument of lexicography, for short | 35 |
| Massive-sized Brit. lexicon | 27 |
| Massive ref. bk. | 16 |
| Massive ref. | 12 |
| Massive Brit. reference | 23 |