If investing significant funds in a paper-based Oxford dictionary, my preference would be for the two-volume Shorter Oxford English Dictionary (6th edition, 2007).
It does help to clarify the meaning of some entries in Chambers by giving a different perspective on them, but otherwise it doesn’t offer too many additional benefits. Note that the free online ‘Chambers Dictionary’ is not the crossword bible referred to above but is the Chambers 21st Century Dictionary, a pale imitation of the BRB.Ĭhambers is the standard reference for most barred puzzles, although some, in particular the Inquisitor puzzle in the i newspaper, also use the one-volume Oxford Dictionary of English (ODE) – the third edition (2010) is the current version. The CD-ROM version has one advantage over the other versions, in that it does allow free text searching of the entire contents. There is a CD-ROM version available for Windows – this is quite expensive and is now also out of date (the contents are similar to those of the 9th paper edition, published in 2003).
CHAMBERS DICTIONARY 13TH EDITION ANDROID
If buying the paper version, make sure you get the February 2016 revision of the 13th edition – the first printing (2014) was lacking all the ‘enriching’ words which had been marked in the 12th edition as being of particular interest! The versions available for IOS and Android are excellent and very inexpensive (the bundle with the Chambers Thesaurus is good value, although see the comments on the thesaurus below). On this page we talk about some of the works of reference in the Clinic library which solvers and setters might consider for their own ‘bookshelves’ (whether real or electronic).įor any solver or setter, the one essential part of their armoury is Chambers Dictionary, known as the BRB (‘big red book’).
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