| GROOVE | Set routine; or, rhythm (6) |
| POETRY | Word for the art of a balladeer, bard, elegist, lyricist or sonneteer; or, something comparable to versification in beauty or rhythm (6) |
| RITUAL | Set-routine-(6) |
| SHTICK | Theatrical routine or gimmick (informal) - kitsch (anag) (6) |
| CHORES | Routine or tedious tasks (6) |
| ROTE | Habitual or mechanical routine or procedure (4) |
| STEREOTYPE | See pottery cast in set routine |
| ACTOR | One may have a set routine |
| TEMPO | Speed or rhythm in music (5) |
| OSTINATO | Continually repeated musical phrase or rhythm |
| BIO | Physics or rhythm prefix |
| METER | Heavenly body, but no love or rhythm (5) |
| NOISE | White -, continuous sound with no pattern or rhythm (5) |
| GRIND | A crushing motion; its grating sound; hard, routine or tedious work; the specific grade of pulverisation of coffee beans; or, an extreme swot (5) |
| COG | Word for any one of the sprockets of a gear or other toothed wheel, thus for a subordinate who performs a routine or small part in a greater system (3) |
| RATE | Grooves or wheel furrows, synonymous with fixed or dreary routines; or, mating seasons of deer (4) |
| CREATUREOFHABIT | A phrase for a person who likes to follow a set routine (8,2,5) |
| DAYTODAY | Routine or short-term (3-2-3) |
| MILKRUN | Routine or uneventful journey (4,3) |
| DIAGNOSTIC | Computer routine or output which identifies problems |
