| Many-vol. lexicon | 17 |
| Lit. giant? | 11 |
| Lib. reference | 14 |
| Lexicon with many citations: Abbr. | 34 |
| Lexicographic behemoth, for short | 33 |
| Lexicographer's ref. | 24 |
| Large ref. book | 15 |
| James Murray work: Abbr. | 24 |
| Its Vol. XVI is "Soot-Styx" | 37 |
| Its third edition is scheduled to be finished in 2037: Abbr. | 60 |
| Its last word is "zyxt": Abbr. | 40 |
| Its first vol. covered A to Ant | 31 |
| Its first complete ed. was published in 1928 | 44 |
| It took 70 years to complete, in brief | 38 |
| It may fill a lib. shelf | 24 |
| It has hundreds of thousands of meanings: Abbr. | 47 |
| It has around 600,000 defs. | 27 |
| It comes in many vols. | 22 |
| Huge reference: Abbr. | 21 |
| Hefty reference: Abbr. | 22 |
| Hefty ref. | 10 |
| Gigantic ref. work | 18 |
| Gargantuan Brit. lexicon | 24 |
| Expensive ref. work | 19 |
| Exhaustive word ref. | 20 |
| Enormous ref. work | 18 |
| Eng. lexicon | 12 |
| Distinguished dict. | 19 |
| Dict. published in England | 26 |
| Definitive source for linguists: Abbr. | 38 |
| Definitive def. source | 22 |
| Competitor of Chambers, for short | 33 |
| Compendious ref. | 16 |
| Citation-filled ref. | 20 |
| Champs' prize on the UK game show "Countdown" | 59 |
| Certain ref. work | 17 |
| British word bk. | 16 |
| British ref. set | 16 |
| British ref. for wordsmiths | 27 |
| British ref. | 12 |
| Brit. word ref | 14 |
| Brit. word book | 15 |
| Brit. word authority | 20 |
| Brit. resource for wordsmiths | 29 |
| Brit. reference tome | 20 |
| Brit. reference set | 19 |
| Brit. reference book | 20 |
| Brit. library ref. | 18 |
| Brit word bk. | 13 |
| Book that tells you the meaning of "life": Abbr. | 58 |
| Big word ref. | 13 |
| A-to-zed ref. | 13 |
| A ref. book | 11 |
| 20-volume ref. work | 19 |
| 20-volume ref. set | 18 |
| 20-vol. work | 12 |
| 20-vol. lexicon | 15 |
| 130-lb.-plus ref. | 17 |
| "Zyxt" is its final entry: Abbr. | 42 |
| "The Professor and the Madman" topic, for short | 57 |
| "Reading the ___" (2008 book subtitled "One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages") | 93 |
| Multi-vol. references | 21 |
| Library refs. | 13 |
| Hefty refs. | 11 |
| Weighty refs. | 13 |
| Refs. that take up lots of shelf space | 38 |
| Multivolume refs. | 17 |
| British ref. works | 18 |
| Weighty Brit. references | 24 |
| Venerable Brit. dictionaries | 28 |
| They start A-B, C, D-E, etc. | 28 |
| Some references | 15 |
| Some ref. books | 15 |
| Sizable refs. | 13 |
| Refs. that first went digital in 1988 | 37 |
| Reference works: Abbr. | 22 |
| Ref. works that occupy entire shelves | 37 |
| Ref. works sometimes sold with magnifying glasses | 49 |
| Ref. works for wordsmiths | 25 |
| Ref. tomes | 10 |
| Ref. giants | 11 |
| Ref. books with almost two million quotations: Abbr. | 52 |
| Multivolume ref. works | 22 |
| Multivolume dicts. | 18 |
| Multivolume Brit. references | 28 |
| Meaningful sets, for short? | 27 |
| Lib. references | 15 |
| British refs. | 13 |
| British ref. volumes | 20 |
| British ref. books | 18 |
| Brit. references | 16 |
| Brit. reference works | 21 |
| Big refs. | 9 |
| Big ref. works, for short | 25 |
| Big British refs. | 17 |
| 21,730-pg. references | 21 |
| Trompe l'___ | 16 |
| Eye: Fr. | 8 |
| Trompe l'___ (art illusion) | 31 |
| Parisian peeper | 15 |