| DIGEST | Consider the meaning of a collection of summaries |
| SONG | - - - Of Solomon, a book of the Old Testament consisting of a collection of love poems (4) |
| DEFINITION | A concise explanation/statement of the meaning of a word or phrase; or, sharpness or clarity of outline (10) |
| AESOP | Slave credited with the authorship of a collection of fables including The Boy Who Cried Wolf, The W |
| CODE | A method for hiding the meaning of a message |
| SENSE | The meaning of a bishopric taking in the Poles (5) |
| DRIFT | The meaning of a pile of snow |
| NUT | Brazil, hazel, pecan, almond: any one of a collection of kernels sold in a netted bag during the Christmas season (3) |
| TYPEFACE | The particular artistic interpretation of a collection of alphanumeric symbols or fonts within a family (8) |
| GOOSE | A gander's female counterpart with a fabled auric egg-laying example killed by its greedy owner; or, with "Mother", an imaginary author of a collection of fairy tales and nursery rhymes (5) |
| BOXSET | An avid audiophile, binge-watcher or completist's fancy in the form of a collection of related books, CDs or DVDs packaged as a single unit (3,3) |
| BEVY | Be on the very outsides of a collection of quails |
| PSALM | One of a collection of songs in the Bible (5) |
| FATHOM | Discover the meaning of 'a unit of length equal to six feet' (6) |
| DEFINED | Explained the meaning of a word |
| DEFINE | Give the meaning of (a word) |
| DEFINING | Explaining the meaning of a word |
| MOTHERGOOSE | Imaginary author of a collection of French fairy tales and later of English nursery rhymes (6,5) |
| LICE | Girl getting rid of a collection of bloodsuckers (4) |
| LIBRARIAN | Custodian of a collection of books (9) |
