| LAROUSSE | French lexicographer who edited and cocompiled a 15-volume dictionary and founded a publishing house noted for a tome on gastronomy (8) |
| BOON | Who, along with Mills, founded a publishing company famous for romantic novels? (4) |
| COAUTHORED | Wife leaves educator who edited and wrote joint work (10) |
| PTOLEMYI | Alexander the Great's Macedonian general who became ruler of 'gypt and founded a dynasty named after him (7,1) |
| OVID | Poet, famous for his 15-volume Metamorphoses, d. AD 17 or 18 (4) |
| OED | Multi-volume dictionary (abbr.) |
| REP | Member of a publishing house sales force |
| BACKBOARD | Paper ___ (directors at a publishing house?) |
| EDITOR | Head of a publishing house |
| COEDIT | Collaborate in a publishing house |
| DIMENOVELIST | Real bargain for a publishing house? |
| SLUSHPILES | Stacks at a publishing house |
| EDIT | Work for a publishing house, perhaps |
| KNOPF | Alfred A. (publishing house) |
| ASSOCIATEEDITOR | Mid-level position at a publishing house |
| ALMANAC | Book near a dictionary and atlas on a shelf, maybe |
| JAMESON | Journalist and broadcaster who edited the Daily Mirror, Daily Express, Daily Star and News Of The World in the 1970s and '80s (5,7) |
| REID | Poet who edited Selected Letters of Ted Hughes and wrote books or collections including A Scattering, The Song of Lunch and Old Toffer's Book of Consequential Dogs (4) |
| CROSSREFERENCES | Things to "see" in a dictionary, and what both parts of the answers to the starred clues are? |
| ATLAS | Book on the shelf next to a dictionary and thesaurus, maybe |
