| ROLAND | French epic "The Song of ___" |
| LONGFELLOW | Poet remembered for narratives and ballads including The Wreck of the Hesperus, The Village Blacksmith and his epic The Song of Hiawatha (10) |
| HIAWATHA | The Song of ___, epic poem from 1855 by Henry Longfellow (8) |
| TWOTOWERS | Epic The Lord of the Rings: The_ (3,6) |
| CHANSONDEROLAND | Old French epic song from one of the Rat Pack? (7,2,6) |
| CHANSONSDEGESTE | French epic poems telling of the exploits of knights (8,2,5) |
| CHANSONDEGESTE | Type of French epic poem often celebrating the exploits of knights (7,2,5) |
| REDMAYNE | Men ready to move with Eddie, star of C4 epic The Pillars of the Earth (8) |
| WHITE | Author of the Arthurian epic The Once and Future King, whose greatest love is said to have been the pet Irish setter he called Brownie (5) |
| GISH | Oscar-nominated US actress who played the lead in the 1915 silent epic The Birth Of A Nation (4) |
| LILLIAN | Oscar-nominated US actress who played the lead in the 1915 silent epic The Birth Of A Nation (7) |
| SAMPECKINPAH | Director of the 1969 Western epic The Wild Bunch |
| SOLOMON | Song of ___ (book of the Bible) |
| CLAN | Jean M Auel's Cro-magnon epic, The ... Of The Cave Bear |
| INFERNO | The first section of Dante's allegorical epic The Divine Comedy (7) |
| MCQUEEN | Hollywood's 'King of Cool', Oscar nominated for his role in the 1967 war epic The Sand Pebbles (7) |
| STEVE | Hollywood's 'King of Cool', Oscar nominated for his role in the 1967 war epic The Sand Pebbles (5) |
| POEM | Indian epic The Mahabharata is widely regarded as being the world's longest of this art form (4) |
| SPENSER | 16th-century poet who wrote the epic The Faerie Queene |
| ARMA | "___ virumque cano..." (Latin opening of Virgil's epic The Aeneid) |
