| FURNIVALL | Co-founder of the Oxford English Dictionary who established the originally women-only sculling club that bears his name today (9) |
| ONIONS | Lexicographer, philologist and fourth editor of the Oxford English Dictionary who shares his surname with shallot-like alliaceous bulbs (6) |
| MADMAN | "The Professor and the ___" (Simon Winchester book about the making of the Oxford English Dictionary) |
| MURRAY | Editor of the Oxford English Dictionary depicted by Mel Gibson in The Professor and the Madman (6) |
| JAMESMURRAY | Who was the first editor of the Oxford English Dictionary? |
| SET | Entry comprising more than twenty pages of the Oxford English Dictionary |
| ZED | End of the Oxford English Dictionary |
| DOH | The Simpsons exclamation that was added to the Oxford English Dictionary in 2001 |
| ALAMAK | Singlish expression of dismay recently added to the Oxford English Dictionary |
| MCJOB | Term that McDonald's campaigned to have removed from the Oxford English Dictionary |
| SLANG | Modern additions to the Oxford English Dictionary, often |
| TWERK | Dance move added to the Oxford English Dictionary in 2015 |
| VOLUMETWO | It ends with chalypsography, in the Oxford English Dictionary |
| OMITTED | Skipped over "glove" in the Oxford English Dictionary (7) |
| AFINECOUTHTOME | The Oxford English Dictionary? |
| FANNYADAMS | Murdered and dismembered in 1867, which eight-year-old girl's name is in the Oxford English Dictionary? (5,5) |
| NEWMAN | John Henry, 19th Century theologian who was one of the founders of the Oxford Movement (6) |
| PROFESSOR | Mel Gibson plays Oxford English Dictionary compiler James Murray in the biopic, The _ and the Madman (9) |
| MONTAGU | With several species named after him including a blenny and a harrier, the author of Ornithological Dictionary who first distinguished the cirl bunting from the yellowhammer (7) |
| AMBROSE | ___ Bierce author of The Devil's Dictionary who served in the U.S. Union Army |
