| LEXICON | Dictionary of terms |
| GLOSSARY | Brief dictionary of terms (8) |
| GROVE | First director of the Royal College of Music who founded the Dictionary of Music and Musicians; or, a woodland/orchard of lemon, orange or olive trees (5) |
| GRADUS | Dictionary of Latin or Greek prosody; or, a book of etudes arranged in order of increasing difficulty (6) |
| WORDSWORTH | One preface of the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations quoted a reviser mentioning "huge snowdrifts" of this poet (10) |
| GLOSS | Lustre; paint or cosmetic with a shiny finish; or, short word for a mini dictionary or lexicon of terms peculiar to field of knowledge (5) |
| DEBRA | Actress Winger of Terms of Endearment |
| WINGER | Debra of "Terms of Endearment" |
| EBENEZER | Brewer of Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable |
| BLOM | Which English critic edited the fifth edition of Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians and wrote |
| DRJOHNSON | Name by which the lexicographer who wrote A Dictionary of the English Language and Lives of the Most |
| NOAHWEBSTER | American lexicographer who published his first dictionary, A Compendious Dictionary of the English L |
| BREWER | Ebenezer Cobham ___, compiler of an 1870 Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (6) |
| WEBSTER | Lexicographer noted for his 1806 publication A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language; or, the dramatist who wrote The Duchess of Malfi (7) |
| STEPHEN | Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell's father; a mountaineer and first editor of the Dictionary of National Biography (7) |
| BURKE | John ___, Irish genealogist who first published his Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the United Kingdom in 1826 |
| CARR | Author of novels including A Day in Summer and A Month in the Country who published his Dictionary of Extraordinary English Cricketers under his imprint The Quince Tree Press (4) |
| NAMES | Studied in onomastics, titles or forms of address listed in a who's who or the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography started by Sir Leslie Stephen, for example (5) |
| JOHNSON | Written about in James Boswell's Life, author of the Rambler essays and A Dictionary of the English Language who founded a literary club with Joshua Reynolds (7) |
| FOWLER | Henry Watson --, author of 'A Dictionary of Modern English Usage' (6) |
