| OSSIAN | Narrator of a cycle of epic poems by James Macpherson |
| PRELUDE | Any one of a cycle of 24 piano pieces by Chopin including his Op. 28, No. 15, or "Raindrop" (7) |
| ODYSSEUS | Legendary Greek king of Ithaca, hero of epic poem by Homer (8) |
| EPOS | Body of epic poems |
| RULEBRITANNIA | Patriotic song, based on a poem by James Thomson set to music by Thomas Arne in 1740 |
| ROTATION | A word for a spin of a planet, turn of a wheel or other axial turn; a cycle of alternating arable fields for crops or felling trees; a mathematical curl; or, any recurrent order (8) |
| IDYLLS | - of the King; tracing the legend of King Arthur, his knights and love for Guinevere, a cycle of 12 narrative poems by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (6) |
| ASHROPSHIRELAD | A cycle of sixty-three poems by A E Housman published in 1896 |
| POCKET | One of typically three pouches sewn into the back of a cycle jersey; or, one of the netted hollows in a snooker table (6) |
| ETAPE | French word for a day's march, a storehouse, rations issued to troops or a stage of a cycle race (5) |
| ROTA | From the Latin for "wheel", a round, such as Sumer is icumen in a cycle of duty; a schedule; or, a hurdy-gurdy (4) |
| CHANSONSDEGESTE | French epic poems telling of the exploits of knights (8,2,5) |
| SASH | Something the narrator of "A Visit From St. Nicholas" threw up |
| TRISTRAMSHANDY | Eponymous narrator of a Sterne novel (8,6) |
| ELECTRA | Mourning Becomes ____ is a cycle of plays by Eugene O'Neill |
| HANDLEBAR | Heard composer's fragment of music, part of a cycle |
| MOKSHA | In Hinduism, the final release of the soul from a cycle of incarnations |
| HIAWATHA | The Song Of ........, epic poem from 1855 by Henry Longfellow (8) |
| NUN | Narrator of a Chaucer tale |
| NONNE | Narrator of a Chaucer tale |
