| RAMAYANA | One of the two major Sanskrit epics in Hinduism |
| RAMA | Subject of many Sanskrit epics |
| WORLDSERIES | A best-of-seven playoff between the winning teams of the two major US baseball leagues to decide the championship (5,6) |
| DEMOCRATS | Members of one of the two major US parties (9) |
| DODGERS | One of the two Major League baseball teams based in Los Angeles |
| DEMS | Members of the more left-leaning of the two major parties, for short |
| DEMOCRATICPARTY | One of the two major political groups in USA (10,5) |
| ANIENE | Shorter of the two major rivers flowing through Rome, after the Tiber (6) |
| VENACAVA | Either of the two major veins that convey oxygen-depleted blood to the heart (4,4) |
| MARNE | Tributary of the Seine, scene of two major battles of WWI (5) |
| COWPER | Poet and hymnist whose blank verse epic in six books titled The Task begins with a mock-Miltonic narrative of the evolution of the sofa (6) |
| MAHABHARATA | Sanskrit epic of the Hindus describing the Kurukshetra War (11) |
| ELALAMEIN | Coastal town in Egypt, site of two major World War Two battles in 1942 (2,7) |
| RECITE | Declaim the start of the epic in a trice, maybe (6) |
| KRISHNA | Warrior hero of the Sanskrit epic Mahabharata |
| BIPARTISAN | In the rare case when two major political parties agree, what kind of support is given? (10) |
| INCOME | And one of its two major concerns (6) |
| DALY | Winner of two majors in the '90s |
| SPENSER | Edmund -; poet who wrote the allegorical epic in praise of Elizabeth I The Faerie Queene (7) |
| ODYSSEY | Homeric epic in 24 books in which the wandering king of Ithaca returns home after 10 years to be recognised only by his faithful dog, Argos (7) |
