| STROPHE | First section of a choral ode in ancient Greek drama |
| STROPHES | Sections of choral odes in Greek drama |
| DEUSEXMACHINA | In ancient Greek drama, an actor, playing a god, carried to the stage by a mechanical contrivance to resolve the plot (4,2,7) |
| EXODE | The final chorus in Ancient Greek drama |
| AGON | Conflict in ancient Greek drama |
| EPISODE | Derived from the name for a choral interlude between odes in a Greek tragedy, general word for an instalment of a serialised television/radio programme (7) |
| CHORALODE | Movement in some ancient-Greek dramas |
| ROBE | Part of a choral ensemble? |
| AZALEA | Last flower in the first section of a botanical dictionary |
| TOC | First section of a textbook, for short |
| PARTA | First section of a form, perhaps |
| TORIPARTI | First section of a story about pianist Amos? |
| APPS | Common first section of a menu, familiarly |
| ACTI | First section of a Shakespeare play |
| SATYR | ___ play (ribald genre of Greek drama with a chorus of sylvan creatures) |
| THESPIS | Greek poet who, according to Aristotle, was the first actor in Greek drama (7) |
| SCREENPLAY | Conceal beginning of Pindaric ode in film script |
| YODELS | How a Swiss chants ode in artful return (6) |
| ANON | Source of many an ode, in brief |
| EDITION | Issue of 6 maybe, ode in it surprisingly? |
