| NOAHWEBSTER | Who compiled An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828) |
| WEBSTER | Who (Noah ___) published An American Dictionary of the English Language in 1828? (7) |
| WEBSTERS | Published in 1828 as An American Dictionary of the English Language, what is this dictionary better known as? (8) |
| GRIMM | German brothers (Jakob Ludwig and Wilhelm Karll who compiled an anthology of fairy tales between 1812 and 1822 (5) |
| DRJOHNSON | Name by which the lexicographer who wrote A Dictionary of the English Language and Lives of the Most |
| 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) |
| SAMUELJOHNSON | 18th-century writer of A Dictionary Of The English Language (6,7) |
| REPEL | "We retard what we cannot ..." Johnson, Preface to Dictionary of the English Language (5) |
| OED | Principal historical dictionary of the English language: Abbr. |
| OGDEN | Linguist and philosopher who created Basic English as a simplified system of the English language based on 850 words (5) |
| ZED | The end of the English language? |
| ANGLOSAXON | This early form of the English language is influenced by Germanic vocabularies (5-5) |
| USAGE | A Dictionary of Modern English -; style guide by the lexicographer who compiled the first Concise Ox |
| BURKE | John ___, Irish genealogist who first published his Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the United Kingdom in 1826 |
| SERBIAN | Language of Milorad Pavic's novel "Dictionary of the Khazars" |
| PTOLEMY | Greek astronomer of the 2nd century BC who compiled the Almagest (7) |
| INDEXED | Compiled an alphabetical list of contents (7) |
| HEANEY | Author of poetry collections including Wintering Out and Field Work who compiled the anthology The Rattle Bag with Ted Hughes (6) |
| ISIDORE | Said to have "known everything", archbishop of Seville who compiled the vast compendium of knowledge Etymologies, covering subjects from canon law to cookery utensils (7) |
| DEBRETT | John ___, English publisher who compiled the first Peerage Of England, Scotland, And Ireland in 1802 (7) |
