| REFERTO | Use, as a dictionary |
| REVISE | Update, as a dictionary |
| REFER | __ to (check, as a dictionary) |
| ABRIDGE | Condense, as a dictionary (7) |
| DEFINES | Interprets, as a dictionary |
| LOOKUP | Research, as a dictionary |
| UNABRIDGED | Not at all shortened, as a dictionary |
| DADA | French word for "hobby-horse" that, following its random selection from the pages of a dictionary using a paperknife, was given as the name of a nihilistic art movement co-founded by Jean Arp and Tris |
| LEMMA | Homograph whose disparate meanings range from a dictionary entry and theorem for a proof, to a grassy bract also called a flowering glume (5) |
| THESAURUS | From the Greek meaning "treasure", a word originally for a dictionary that came to mean, since Roget's time, a book of synonyms (9) |
| VOCABULARY | The words of a language, sphere or subject; a dictionary, glossary or lexicon; or, a range of stylistic forms or techniques used in an art/craft (10) |
| LEXICON | Vocabulary of a language, a dictionary (7) |
| DEFINE | Provide the meaning of as in a dictionary |
| HEADING | Aiming for a title in a dictionary (7) |
| TERMS | Entries in a dictionary or a glossary |
| LEXICONFETTI | Result of throwing a dictionary into a wood chipper? |
| WORDS | Listed in a dictionary by Samuel Johnson or a thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget for example, units of language studied in lexicology (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) |
| ENTRY | Item written in a diary or recorded in a dictionary (5) |
| INDICTS | Charges him with sin as found in the beginning of a dictionary (7) |
