| MUSIC | A Dance To The --- --- ---, 12-volume book series by Anthony Powell (5,2,4) |
| OFTIME | A Dance To The --- --- ---, 12-volume book series by Anthony Powell (5,2,4) |
| POWELL | Anthony ___, English author of novels including the 12-volume A Dance to the Music of Time (1951-75) |
| POUSSIN | Artist whose painting A Dance to the Music of Time inspired a 12-volume cycle of novels by Anthony Powell (7) |
| ADANCETOTHE | 12-volume series of novels by Anthony Powell (1,5,2,3,5,2,4) |
| SPACETRAVEL | Voyage by rocket ... or a feature of the answers to the 12 starred clues? |
| MUSICOFTIME | Sequence of twelve novels by Anthony Powell (1,5,2,3,5,2,4) |
| ADANCETOTHEMUSICOFTIME | A twelve-volume cycle of novels by Anthony Powell, inspired by the painting of the same name by Nicolas Poussin |
| ANTHONY | First name of novelist best known for his 12-volume work A Dance to the Music of Time (7) |
| DANCE | A - to the Music of Time; cycle of 12 novels by Anthony Powell inspired by a painting by Nicolas Poussin (5) |
| THEMUSIC | 12 volume series of novels by Anthony Powell (1,5,2,3,5,2,4) |
| ADANCETO | 12 volume series of novels by Anthony Powell (1,5,2,3,5,2,4) |
| ANTHONYPOWELL | A Dance To The Music Of Time author (7,6) |
| NICOLAS | French Baroque painter known for works including A Dance to the Music of Time (c. 1634-6) (7,7) |
| MUSETTE | French bagpipe popular in court circles of the 17th and 18th centuries; a gavotte or pastoral air with a drone bass suggestive of said shepherd's pipe; or, a dance to such a melody (7) |
| CHINESEZODIAC | What the starts of the answers to the 12 starred clues make up |
| AMOS | Third book attributed to the 12 minor prophets in the Old Testament (4) |
| THE | *What can be added to the 12 starred clues, to make band names |
| BOOKSDOFURNISHAROOM | Novel by Anthony Powell |
| AFTERNOONMEN | 1931 novel by Anthony Powell |
