| Date | Grid | Clue | Author |
| Sun Jan 21, 2024 | 93D | Ref. work that began as a Philological Society project | John Westwig |
| Sat Dec 30, 2023 | 42A | Ref. work that Tolkien contributed to from "waggle" to "wild" | Simeon Seigel |
| Tue Nov 28, 2023 | 59D | Massive ref. (2) | Gia Bosko |
| Sun Oct 22, 2023 | 87D | British ref. work (4) | Robert Ryan |
| Sun Sep 10, 2023 | 84A | Major ref. | Adam Wagner |
| Sat Mar 4, 2023 | 21A | Big reference, but shortened | Ryan McCarty |
| Thu Oct 13, 2022 | 15A | Meaningful work, for short? | Lewis Rothlein |
| Thu Apr 14, 2022 | 8D | Work started by London's Philological Soc. (3) | Ashish Vengsarkar and Narayan Venkatasubramanyan |
| Sun Jan 23, 2022 | 108D | Alternative to Webster's, in brief | Nancy Stark and Will Nediger |
| Sun Nov 14, 2021 | 63D | It added "essential worker" in March of 2021: Abbr. | Aimee Lucido and Ella Dershowitz |
| Fri Aug 20, 2021 | 21D | Ref. work that took more than 70 years to complete | Randolph Ross |
| Wed Jun 23, 2021 | 57A | Where Boxing Day comes before Christmas, in brief? | Kate Hawkins |
| Mon May 3, 2021 | 43A | A-to-zed lexicon, in brief | Ross Trudeau |
| Wed Mar 10, 2021 | 22D | Subj. of Charlotte Brewer's "Treasure-House of the Language" | Nancy Stark and Will Nediger |
| Sat Apr 18, 2020 | 51D | Its "concise" version has almost 1,700 pages: Abbr. | Ryan McCarty |
| Fri Mar 27, 2020 | 9D | Ref. work in which the verb "set" has a 60,000-word entry | Kyle Dolan |
| Tue Mar 17, 2020 | 35A | U.K. lexicon (3) | Ross Trudeau |
| Sun Nov 24, 2019 | 96D | Publication whose first ed. took more than 70 years to complete | Frank Longo |
| Fri Oct 4, 2019 | 7D | Where "♥" has appeared since 2011, in brief | Matthew Sewell |
| Tue Sep 24, 2019 | 22A | Hefty lexical ref. | John Guzzetta |
| Thu Apr 18, 2019 | 29A | Ref. work begun by the London Philological Society | Alex Eaton-Salners |
| Fri Mar 22, 2019 | 8D | Masterwork in philology, for short | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| Thu Mar 21, 2019 | 51A | Its second ed. contains about 59 million words | Christopher Adams |
| Wed Dec 26, 2018 | 39D | Ref. that added "cruciverbalist" (a person who does crosswords) in 2006 | Howard Barkin |
| Wed Nov 21, 2018 | 33D | A heart symbol, meaning "love," was its first graphical entry, for short | Brandon Koppy |
| Sun Oct 14, 2018 | 64D | Classic work whose "shorter" version comes in two vols. | Ross Trudeau |
| Wed Sep 12, 2018 | 27A | Its first vol., A-Ant, was published in 1884 | Jeffrey Wechsler |
| Sat Sep 8, 2018 | 16A | Work containing more than 3.5 million citations, for short | Andrew J. Ries |
| Wed Sep 5, 2018 | 21A | Massive lang. reference | Amanda Chung, Karl Ni and Erik Agard |
| Sat Aug 11, 2018 | 32D | Massive resource: Abbr. | Ryan McCarty |
| Sat Jun 2, 2018 | 40D | It took 70 years to complete, in brief (2) | Trenton Charlson |
| Thu May 3, 2018 | 49A | It ends with "zyzzyva," in brief | Emily Carroll |
| Wed Apr 25, 2018 | 4D | Classic work originally in 10 vols. | Adam G. Perl |
| Thu Apr 5, 2018 | 44D | Big ref. work | David J. Kahn |
| Sat Mar 17, 2018 | 6D | Subj. of the 2003 book "The Meaning of Everything" | Roland Huget |
| Sun Mar 11, 2018 | 107D | Webster's Third competitor, for short | Matthew Sewell |
| Thu Mar 8, 2018 | 54D | Voluminous ref. (2) | Jim Quinlan |
| Mon Jan 29, 2018 | 21D | Brit. resource for writers | Lynn Lempel |
| Thu Jan 25, 2018 | 38A | "Reading the ___: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages" (2008 book) | Alex Eaton-Salners |
| Wed Sep 13, 2017 | 58A | 21,728-pg. work that is constantly updated | Daniel Mauer |
| Tue Aug 1, 2017 | 67A | Multivolume ref. (5) | Jay Kaskel |
| Wed May 24, 2017 | 22D | Voluminous ref. work (2) | Michael Hawkins |
| Tue Apr 11, 2017 | 47A | Multivolume ref. (5) | Zachary Spitz and Diane Roseman |
| Tue Feb 14, 2017 | 35D | U.K. lexicon (3) | Daniel Larsen |
| Mon Jan 16, 2017 | 65D | British ref. work (4) | John Wrenholt |
| Mon Oct 24, 2016 | 45D | British ref. work (4) | John Guzzetta |
| Fri Feb 12, 2016 | 42D | Time magazine's "scholarly Everest," for short | Brandon Hensley |
| Sun Jun 21, 2015 | 43A | Lexical ref. | Timothy Polin |
| Mon Apr 27, 2015 | 38D | British ref. work (4) | Johanna Fenimore |
| Mon Sep 29, 2014 | 62D | Word ref. started in 1857 | Eric Sydney Phillips |
| Tue Jul 22, 2014 | 37A | 20-volume ref. | Joel Fagliano |
| Thu Jun 5, 2014 | 44A | Work that's been punningly called a "lex icon": Abbr. | Ed Sessa |
| Mon Feb 17, 2014 | 52D | Ref. with about 22,000 pages | David Gray |
| Thu Feb 6, 2014 | 19D | Multivolume set, for short | Joe Krozel |
| Sun Aug 25, 2013 | 57A | Massive ref. (2) | Victor Barocas |
| Fri Jun 21, 2013 | 45A | Its first complete ed. was published in 1928 | Michael Sharp |
| Tue Jun 11, 2013 | 40A | Ref. work that took 70 years to complete | Pete Muller |
| Thu Jun 6, 2013 | 32A | Ref. with more than 2 1/2 million quotations | James Tuttle |
| Sun Jun 2, 2013 | 43A | Its last word is "zyxt": Abbr. | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| Thu Jan 3, 2013 | 18A | It took 70 years to complete, in brief (2) | Bruce Haight |
| Sun Dec 2, 2012 | 107A | Voluminous ref. (2) | Steven E. Atwood |
| Mon Jun 11, 2012 | 65D | Brit. reference work (2) | Andrea Carla Michaels and Michael Blake |
| Mon Mar 12, 2012 | 60A | British ref. for wordsmiths | Lynn Lempel |
| Tue Oct 11, 2011 | 5D | U.K. wordsmith's ref. | Ed Sessa |
| Fri Nov 5, 2010 | 37A | Its first two vols. covered 43-Across | Mike Nothnagel |
| Mon Aug 23, 2010 | 19D | Brit. word reference (2) | Oliver Hill |
| Mon May 31, 2010 | 44A | 20-vol. reference work | Oliver Hill |
| Tue May 4, 2010 | 33D | U.K. lexicon (3) | Doug Peterson |
| Fri Apr 16, 2010 | 43A | Work containing about 2.5 million quotations: Abbr. | Eric Berlin |
| Sun Mar 21, 2010 | 41D | U.K. reference | Adam Fromm |
| Tue Feb 2, 2010 | 53A | Brit. reference | Alex Fay |
| Sat Jan 23, 2010 | 21D | It has hundreds of thousands of meanings: Abbr. | Karen M. Tracey |
| Wed Dec 23, 2009 | 65D | Orthographer's ref. | Jonathan Porat |
| Thu Oct 8, 2009 | 5D | Work started by London's Philological Soc. (3) | Scott Atkinson |
| Sun Jul 12, 2009 | 120D | Etymologist's ref. | Alan Arbesfeld |
| Thu Jun 25, 2009 | 14D | 20-vol. work | Bill Zais |
| Mon Mar 2, 2009 | 16A | Brit. resource for wordsmiths | Lynn Lempel |
| Wed Feb 18, 2009 | 33A | Wordsmith's ref. | Susan Gelfand |
| Sun Feb 1, 2009 | 43A | Competitor of Chambers, for short | Victor Fleming and Matt Ginsberg |
| Sun Mar 23, 2008 | 109A | Shak. is its most-quoted writer | Robert W. Harris |
| Sat Nov 24, 2007 | 19A | Philologists' work, for short | Victor Fleming |
| Sun Jun 24, 2007 | 22A | Ref. work with online subscriptions | Eric Berlin |
| Wed May 2, 2007 | 23A | Work started by London's Philological Soc. (3) | Richard Silvestri |
| Sun Mar 25, 2007 | 87A | Ref. work with more than 300,000 entries | Fred Piscop |
| Mon Mar 19, 2007 | 19A | Multivolume Brit. reference | Richard Chisholm |
| Mon Jan 29, 2007 | 27A | Brit. reference work (2) | Fred Piscop |
| Fri Sep 1, 2006 | 4D | Citation-filled ref. | David Quarfoot |
| Sun Dec 4, 2005 | 91D | Ref. staple (2) | Eric Berlin and Craig Kasper |
| Fri Sep 2, 2005 | 51D | It comes in many vols. | Sherry O. Blackard |
| Tue Apr 5, 2005 | 56A | Monument of lexicography, for short | Harvey Estes |
| Mon Apr 4, 2005 | 40A | Brit. word reference (2) | Christina Houlihan Kelly |
| Sun Nov 30, 2003 | 45A | "The Professor and the Madman" subj. | Manny Nosowsky |
| Wed Nov 19, 2003 | 51A | Voluminous ref. work (2) | Richard Silvestri |
| Mon Jul 21, 2003 | 21D | Multivolume ref. (5) | Andrea Carla Michaels |
| Wed Apr 23, 2003 | 49A | Lexicon with many citations: Abbr. | Gilbert H. Ludwig |
| Sat Apr 19, 2003 | 21A | "The Professor and the Madman" topic, for short | Manny Nosowsky |
| Wed Nov 7, 2001 | 59D | Multivolume ref. (5) | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| Wed Oct 24, 2001 | 25A | Voluminous ref. set | Sarah Keller |
| Wed Dec 29, 1999 | 36A | Set of Brit. tomes | Robert O. Dillman |
| Thu Dec 9, 1999 | 43A | Philologist's ref. | Chuck Deodene |
| Wed Oct 20, 1999 | 7D | Multivolume ref. work | Richard Silvestri |
| Tue Oct 19, 1999 | 58A | Brit. lexicon (4) | Fred Piscop |
| Sun Oct 3, 1999 | 65A | It may fill a lib. shelf | Fred Piscop |
| Sun May 30, 1999 | 59A | Ref. room offering | Cathy Millhauser |
| Sat Jan 16, 1999 | 22D | Lib. reference | Rich Norris |
| Fri Oct 16, 1998 | 29A | Of which A-Ant was pub. in Jan. 1884 | Martin Ashwood-Smith |
| Wed Jul 1, 1998 | 30A | Brit. lexicon (4) | Fred Piscop |
| Sat May 9, 1998 | 33A | Ref. staple (2) | Rich Norris |
| Sun Feb 8, 1998 | 15D | Library ref. (2) | Manny Nosowsky |
| Sun Jul 13, 1997 | 28A | Library ref. (2) | Fred Piscop |
| Sat Mar 22, 1997 | 45A | Often-cited ref. | Rich Norris |
| Sun Jan 5, 1997 | 27A | Ref. set | W. R. Williams |
| Fri Dec 20, 1996 | 33A | Noted publication of 1933, for short | M. Ashwood-Smith |
| Sun Sep 8, 1996 | 72A | Some library vols. | R. H. Wolfe |
| Tue Sep 5, 1995 | 32D | Brit. lexicon (4) | Jonathan Schmatzbach |
| Thu Apr 27, 1995 | 50D | Respected ref. work | Lois Sidway |
| Sun Oct 23, 1994 | 102A | Brit. lexicon (4) | Cathy Millhauser |
| Wed Oct 19, 1994 | 32D | Expensive ref. work | D.J. Listort |
| Thu Sep 1, 1994 | 20A | James Murray work: Abbr. | Manny Nosowsky |
| Sun Aug 21, 1994 | 52D | Multivolume ref. (5) | Ted Fulton |
| Mon Aug 15, 1994 | 27A | Brit. ref. work (2) | Fred Piscop |
| Thu Mar 24, 1994 | 29A | Brit. ref. work (2) | A.J. Santora |