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Answer: OED

OED is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 274 times.

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• 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
• Ref. with over 600,000 words
• Ref. that added "group chat" in 2024

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