| ROGET | Peter Mark, English physician and lexicographer who in 1852 published a Thesaurus (5) |
| WORDS | Listed in a dictionary by Samuel Johnson or a thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget for example, units of language studied in lexicology (5) |
| SELBY | Mark, English snooker player and three-time World Champion nicknamed The Jester from Leicester (5) |
| USAGE | A Dictionary of Modern English -; style guide by the lexicographer who compiled the first Concise Ox |
| SAMUELJOHNSON | 18th Century English writer and lexicographer who is buried at Westminster Abbey (6,7) |
| PETERMARKROGET | British physician, theologian and lexicographer best known for publishing a Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases in 1852 |
| LAROUSSE | French lexicographer who edited and co-compiled a 15-volume dictionary and founded a publishing house noted for a tome on gastronomy (8) |
| NOAHWEBSTER | American lexicographer who published his first dictionary, A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language, in 1806 |
| FLORIO | Linguist and lexicographer remembered for his dictionary published in 1598 entitled A World of Words (6) |
| EDEN | Mark, English actor who played villain Alan Bradley in Coronation Street (4) |
| HEAP | Mark, English comedian who played Jim Bell in the TV sitcom Friday Night Dinner (4) |
| RONSON | Mark, English DJ who produced the song Uptown Funk released in 2014 (6) |
| EDWARDJENNER | English physician and pioneer of smallpox vaccine, d1823 (6,6) |
| ADDISON | Renowned 19th-century English physician and scientist Thomas (7) |
| DRJOHNSON | Name by which the lexicographer who wrote A Dictionary of the English Language and Lives of the Most |
| LAMARR | Mark, English comedian and original host of Never Mind the Buzzcocks (6) |
| JOHNSON | Samuel -; lexicographer who wrote A Dictionary of the English Language (7) |
| SUSIEDENT | Lexicographer who presides over Dictionary Corner in Countdown (5,4) |
| JENNER | Edward --, English physician and pioneer of vaccination (6) |
| SIGNET | Mark English takes time in Ring (6) |
