The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word GLOSSARY
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More clues leading to the result GLOSSARY
- Chap keeps losing explanatory list of words
- List of terms artist brought back in shiny cover
- Choice of words used by Lineker when admitting defeat
- Word list fool set up in delight
- Guy’s scholars have no such problem with list of terms
- Fool does a turn in Fame – this list should explain
- Shiny cover for a queen’s book of words and definitions
- Boy admits disappearance of pocket dictionary
- Boy admitting defeat where terms are laid out
- Set of definitions a lexicographer finally put in magazine
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The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does GLOSSARY mean?
GLOSSARY noun- A list of terms in a particular domain of knowledge with their definitions.