| CENTO | Literary or musical patchwork |
| WORK | An artistic, literary or musical composition; or, in physics, a form of energy measured in joules (4) |
| MORCEAU | French word for a bite, crumb or fragment, thus for a short literary or musical composition (7) |
| TETRALOGY | Series of four related literary or musical works, e.g. the first or second Henriad by Shakespeare (9) |
| OPUSCULE | A diminutive of Latin for "work", used to describe a small or petty artistic, literary or musical work (8) |
| OPUS | Literary or musical work |
| PIECE | Literary or musical composition (5) |
| GENRE | Literary or musical style |
| LEITMOTIF | A recurrent theme throughout a literary or musical composition |
| PARODIES | Musical, literary, or other compositions that mimic the style of another composer or author in a humorous or satirical way (8) |
| CHORD | Harmonic set of three or more notes sounded simultaneously; or, a literary or poetic word for a string of a harp or other instrument (5) |
| MOTIF | Dominant or recurring idea, theme etc. in a musical, literary or other artistic work (5) |
| ALBION | Literary or historical name for Britain or England |
| ABODES | Literary or poetic word for habitations, houses or homes (6) |
| SKIT | A literary or artistic work of light satire or caricature (4) |
| THRALL | Literary or archaic word for servitude or subjugation (6) |
| SCI | __-fi (literary or film genre" |
| COPYRIGHT | Legal control of literary or artistic work (9) |
| CATHAY | A literary or archaic name for China |
| ANALECTS | A collection of literary or philosophical excerpts |
