Answer: OED
OED is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 272 times.
- Noted publication of 1933, for short
- Ref. set
- Library ref.
- Often-cited ref.
- Brit. lexicon
- Ref. staple
- Of which A-Ant was pub. in Jan. 1884
- Philologist's ref.
- Set of Brit. tomes
- Lib. reference
- Ref. room offering
- It may fill a lib. shelf
- Multivolume ref. work
- British ref. work
- Multivolume ref.
- Voluminous ref. set
- "The Professor and the Madman" topic, for short
- Lexicon with many citations: Abbr.
- Voluminous ref. work
- "The Professor and the Madman" subj.
- Brit. word reference
- Monument of lexicography, for short
- It comes in many vols.
- Citation-filled ref.
- Brit. reference work
- Ref. work with online subscriptions
- Multivolume Brit. reference
- Ref. work with more than 300,000 entries
- Work started by London's Philological Soc.
- Philologists' work, for short
- Shak. is its most-quoted writer
- 20-vol. work
- Brit. resource for wordsmiths
- Competitor of Chambers, for short
- Wordsmith's ref.
- Etymologist's ref.
- Brit. reference staple
- U.K. lexicon
- British word bk.
- Large ref. work
- Venerable ref. work
- Twenty-volume UK reference
- Subj. of "The Professor and the Madman"
- Multivolume ref. set
- 20-vol. reference
- Brit. word ref
- Major ref. work
- Huge ref. work
- Brit. library ref.
- Twenty-volume ref. for writers
- Ref. of note
- Brit. reference
- It has hundreds of thousands of meanings: Abbr.
- Orthographer's ref.
- 20-volume ref.
- Ref. conceived of in 1857 by London's Philological Society
- Lexicographic behemoth, for short
- Its first vol. covered A to Ant
- A-to-zed ref.
- Subj. of the book "Treasure-House of the Language"
- Multivolume lex.
- Subj. of the book "The Meaning of Everything"
- "Reading the ___" (2008 book subtitled "One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages")
- U.K. reference
- 130-lb.-plus ref.
- Big ref.
- Ref. work chronicled in "The Professor and the Madman"
- 20-vol. lexicon
- Voluminous lexicological work: Abbr.
- Its Vol. XVI is "Soot-Styx"
- Wk. that begins with "A-Bazouki"
- Multi-volume ref.
- Authoritative ref.
- Subj. of Simon Winchester's "The Meaning of Everything"
- Its first vol. was published in 1884
- Venerable lexicon: Abbr.
- Venerable British ref. set
- UK lexicon
- Major ref. set
- Multi-volume ref. work
- Venerable reference wk.
- Brit. ref. work
- Classic ref. work
- Brit. reference set
- Brit. word book
- U.K. reference book
- Where a Brit may find a def.
- Respected ref. book
- UK multi-volume ref. work
- Noted Brit lexicon
- Word-lover's ref. book
- Massive ref. work
- Brit. reference bk.
- Work containing about 2.5 million quotations: Abbr.
- Many-vol. lexicon
- 20-vol. reference work
- Ref. work featured in "The Professor and the Madman"
- Hefty ref.
- Its first two vols. covered 43-Across
- British ref.
- Brit. dictionary
- Twenty-vol. reference work
- Multi-vol. Brit. ref.
- Huge reference: Abbr.
- Subject of the book "The Meaning of Everything," briefly
- Reference volume from the UK
- Venerable reference book from the UK
- Ref. that added the word "anally" in 2010
- Compendious ref.
- U.K. wordsmith's ref.
- The "definitive record of the English language"
- U.K. reference bk.
- Massive ref. bk.
- U.K. ref. bk.
- Brit. ref. bk.
- UK reference set
- Enormous ref. work
- It has around 600,000 defs.
- Shelf-filling ref. work
- Twenty-volume ref. work
- Book that tells you the meaning of "life": Abbr.
- Heavy ref. work
- 20-volume ref. set
- Ref. last published in 1989
- Webster's relative, for short
- Brit. reference book
- British ref. for wordsmiths
- Ref. work whose Compact Edition is sold with a magnifying glass
- UK reference book
- Ref. with no substitute
- Ref. that's been online since 2000
- Champs' prize on the UK game show "Countdown"
- Voluminous ref.
- Its "Concise" version has more than 1,700 pgs.
- Work requiring oversized shelves, briefly
- U.K. ref. set.
- It took 70 years to complete, in brief
- Ref. with no proper nouns in its earliest edition
- "Half-caf" was added to it in 2012
- Brit. reference tome
- Big word ref.
- Hefty reference: Abbr.
- British ref. set
- Where age always goes before beauty, briefly
- U.K. lexicological work
- Its last word is "zyxt": Abbr.
- Multi-vol. lexicon
- Ref. with more than 2 1/2 million quotations
- Ref. work that took 70 years to complete
- U.K. ref. set
- Its first complete ed. was published in 1928
- Ref. with about 600,000 word-forms
- Source with 600,000 words
- Massive ref.
- Exhaustive word ref.
- Massive Brit. reference
- Multivolume set, for short
- Ref. with about 22,000 pages
- Heavy ref.
- Ref. volumes from the UK
- Work that's been punningly called a "lex icon": Abbr.
- British lexicon, for short
- Lit. giant?
- Word ref. started in 1857
- Heavy Brit. reference set
- "Un-PC" was added to it in 2014
- Large lexicon (abbr.)
- "The Meaning of Everything" subject: Abbr.
- Lexical ref.
- Ref. shelf filler
- Famed English dictionary, abbr.
- Ref. section staple
- Time magazine's "scholarly Everest," for short
- Big U.K. lexicon
- Ref. with quarterly online updates
- Online ref. since 2000
- Shelf-filling bks.
- Clickbait site, as of Sep. 2016
- Acronym for a world class dictionary
- "Clickbait" was added to it in Sep. 2016
- Ref. for wordsmiths
- It added "YouTuber" in 2016
- It added "brr-brr" in 2016
- Some library vols.
- 21,728-pg. work that is constantly updated
- British multivolume set (Abbr.)
- UK word authority
- "Reading the ___: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages" (2008 book)
- Brit. resource for writers
- Webster's Third competitor, for short
- Subj. of the 2003 book "The Meaning of Everything"
- Bks. with millions of quotations
- Big ref. work
- Classic work originally in 10 vols.
- It ends with "zyzzyva," in brief
- "Mansplain" was added to it in Jan. 2018
- Famed British ref.
- Dict. published in England
- Massive resource: Abbr.
- Massive lang. reference
- Work containing more than 3.5 million citations, for short
- Its first vol., A-Ant, was published in 1884
- Classic work whose "shorter" version comes in two vols.
- A heart symbol, meaning "love," was its first graphical entry, for short
- Ref. that added "cruciverbalist" (a person who does crosswords) in 2006
- Ref. work whose 2018 Word of the Year is "toxic"
- Exhaustive ref.
- "Webspace" was added to it in Jun. 2017
- Its second ed. contains about 59 million words
- Masterwork in philology, for short
- Ref. work begun by the London Philological Society
- Massive reference, for short
- Ref. that took 70 years to complete
- Lexicographical authority
- Its Jun. 2019 additions include "bae" and "yeesh"
- Hefty lexical ref.
- It has included a heart symbol since 2011, in brief
- Venerable ref. set
- Ref. that added "xoxo" in 2019
- Publication whose first ed. took more than 70 years to complete
- "Latin@" was added to it in Mar. 2019
- Its 1971 ed. came with a magnifying glass
- Ref. that added "safe space" in 2020
- Its 2019 Word of the Year was "climate emergency" (Abbr.)
- Ref. work in which the verb "set" has a 60,000-word entry
- U.K. reference work
- Its "concise" version has almost 1,700 pages: Abbr.
- Ref. whose recent updates include "chillax" and "whatev"
- Ref. with 20 volumes
- Large Brit. reference
- Lexicon from a British uni
- U.K.-published reference work (Abbr.)
- J.R.R. Tolkien did some research for it
- British lexicon (Abbr.)
- It's had OMG since 2011
- Its Jan. 2018 additions include "hangry" and "mansplain"
- Venerable ref.
- It added "e-waste" in 2020
- Ref. whose first edition took decades to complete
- Lexicon with 600,000+ wds.
- Ref. with thousands of definitions
- Ref. work that added "YOLO" in 2016
- Subj. of Charlotte Brewer's "Treasure-House of the Language"
- A-to-zed lexicon, in brief
- Ref. work that added "livestream" in 2021
- Where Boxing Day comes before Christmas, in brief?
- Ref. work that took more than 70 years to complete
- Multivolume set in the reference sect.
- It added "essential worker" in March of 2021: Abbr.
- Alternative to Webster's, in brief
- Ref. that added "chapstick" in 2021
- Ref. work that added "freshperson" in 2021
- Massive lexicon: Abbr.
- Meaningful work, for short?
- Ref. work that added "influencer" in 2022
- Ref. that could be considered hi-def.?
- Big reference, but shortened
- Uni resource
- Ref. work whose "Concise" version has more than 1,700 pages
- Ref. work favoring "favour"
- Its 2022 Word of the Year was "goblin mode" (Abbr.)
- Ref. work that once employed J.R.R. Tolkien
- Ref. work that Tolkien contributed to from "waggle" to "wild"
- Long reference work, for short
- Ref. work that began as a Philological Society project
- British ref. book
- Reference work that added "turnt" in 2023 (Abbr.)
- Ref. that added "adultification" in 2023
- Ref. that added "turnt" and "deepfake" in 2023
- Set of books once awarded to winners of Britain's "Countdown" game show, for short
- Some 3.5 million quotations were gathered for it, for short
- Work whose first installment spanned 352 pages and ended with "ant," in brief