The centre section of the Oxford Thesaurus of English contains word lists to supplement the main entries. While the main entry for, say, sport gives synonyms for sport—game, recreation, etc.—the list entitled ‘Sports’ in the centre section gives the names of particular sports—archery, badminton, curling, dressage, etc. There are also fascinating lists of imitative, archaic, foreign, and other words. These lists all make OTE an invaluable aid to crossword-solving and a fascinating source of encyclopedic information on subjects as diverse as clouds, cocktails, marsupials, and martial arts. There is a thorough index to these lists at the start of the section.