| LEITMOTIV | Recurring theme in music or literature (9) |
| THEME | Motif in music or literature |
| MOTIF | Recurring theme in music |
| RESONANCE | From the Latin meaning "echo", sympathetic vibration in music or physics; plangency or sonority; or, by extension, something that evokes emotion or strikes a chord (9) |
| LEITMOTIF | It's a recurring theme in accommodation around island design (9) |
| SELFEXILE | Recurring theme in Lost Generation fiction |
| EXERCISES | Physical exertions such as sit-ups, crunches or burpees; studies in music; or military drills (9) |
| ACADEMISM | Adherence to formal rules in art or literature |
| GENRE | A style or category of art, music or literature (5) |
| OEVRES | Styles or categories of art, music, or literature (6) |
| AVANTGARDE | Word used to refer to art, music or literature that is modern or experimental (5-5) |
| OEUVRE | Body of work of art, music, or literature (6) |
| ART | Music or literature |
| SUBGENRE | A division of a style of art, music or literature (8) |
| ROMANTIC | Art, music or literature characterised by an emphasis on feeling and content rather than order and f |
| RHYTHM | Describing beat, cadence, flow or tempo in music or a harmonious sequence of colours or elements in art, one of the longest words in the English dictionary without vowels (6) |
| TROPE | Recurring theme in bulletin: "Leader exiting in revolt" (5) |
| MOTTO | Repeated theme in music |
| REPRISED | Repeated an earlier theme in music (8) |
| FADE | Gradual increase or decrease in volume in music; or, a dissolve from one image to another in film (4) |
