| PALLIATA | Fabula ____: a play in Greek dress, lit. in a cloak (8) |
| PROMETHEUSBOUND | Play in Greek concert and cut number headed for America |
| CALYPSOS | Songs about plays in Greek island (8) |
| PRAETEXTA | Toga ____, a purple-edged cloak or fabula ____, a tragedy |
| AUSORUM | Fabula ____: a tale of daring deeds |
| SPIDERS | Put on a Greek dress and catch flies for a living (7) |
| UNICORN | Greek dress donned, unoriginally, by mythical creature (7) |
| INTERVAL | What is a break, as between acts of a play in a theatre (8) |
| EPITASIS | In classical drama, the part of a play in which the main action develops and which leads to the catastrophe (8) |
| WILDCARD | One of two baseball playoff teams determined next week by a "play-in" game in each major league, and a hint to this puzzle's circles |
| DUOLOGUE | Part of a play in which the speaking roles are limited to two actors (8) |
| FOGUERON | Local name for a bonfire, mid-January in Mallorca sees many of these lit in the streets to celebrate the fiestas of Sant Antoni and Saint Sebastian (8) |
| FIREDAMP | Gas lit in the morning by parlour-maid, initially (8) |
| COMPLAIN | One lamp lit in study to find fault (8) |
| NOVEMBER | Fires are lit in its early days (8) |
| WICK | It may be lit in a Scottish county town (4) |
| AMIDST | Central roundabout poorly-lit in a way (6) |
| SECRETO | Clam; advb, lit in a place separated from others |
| TRIATHLETE | Theatre lit in a fancy way for rugged sportsperson (10) |
| GUILTY | Convicted man gets lit, in a frenzy (6) |
