| INDEXER | Compiler of alphabetical lists |
| GLOSSARIST | Term for a writer/compiler of brief dictionary-like alphabetical lists of words relating to specific subjects (10) |
| THUMB | - index; series of alphabetical grooves down the side of some dictionaries, diaries and address books to facilitate easy reference (5) |
| MAZE | A complex network of alphabetical extremes without me |
| AAR | River close to the top of alphabetical listings |
| ALSO | A number of alphabetical solutions in parallel (4) |
| ABUDHABI | Capital city which appears first in alphabetical lists; one of the UAE (3,5) |
| INDICES | Alphabetical lists with references at the end of books (7) |
| AJAX | Initiates of alphabetical jigsaw and Araucaria's Xmas Club (4) |
| RAZOR | Right at the start of alphabetical extremes or a cutthroat, perhaps |
| INDEX | Alphabetical list of subjects at the end of a book; the gnomon of a sundial; or, a figure of a point |
| GERARD | Originally a barber-surgeon, the botanist and superintendent of the gardens of William Cecil, Lord Burghley and compiler of the tome Herball (6) |
| NEWTON | Surname of the compiler of the three laws of motion published in 1687 (6) |
| DEBRETT | Publisher, compiler of catalogues of the peerage of the UK since 1802 (7) |
| GLOSSATOR | An ancient commentator; a writer of marginalia; a medieval interpreter of legal manuscripts; or, a compiler of a lexicon (9) |
| ROGET | Compiler of helpful lists |
| CRANMER | Compiler of the Book of Common Prayer (7) |
| MENSA | Compiler of names of geniuses |
| ANTHOLOGIST | Compiler of a collection of works (11) |
| BREWER | Ebenezer Cobham ___, compiler of an 1870 Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (6) |
