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Lexicon in this way accommodating a user that's confused (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

thesaurus

'lexicon' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'in this way accommodating a user that's confused' is the wordplay.
'in this way' becomes 'thus' (synonyms).
'accommodating' indicates putting letters inside.
'that's confused' is an anagram indicator.
'a'+'user'='auser'
'auser' is an anagram of 'esaur'.
'thus' going around 'esaur' is 'THESAURUS'.

(Other definitions for thesaurus that I've seen before include "Book listing synonyms" , "Reference work" , "Wordy gathering" , "Dictionary" , "Book of words with synonyms, antonyms etc" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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