| MAINTAIN | Support American state report that's epic, in a local literary sense (8) |
| SAGA | Soprano has range that's epic |
| TITANIC | Ship is back in an epic, in a title role! (7) |
| RECITE | Declaim the start of the epic in a trice, maybe (6) |
| HAWAII | State report of prostitute with a football team |
| DETONATION | Addict's treatment curtailed by state report |
| CHEVILLE | French word for a peg of a stringed instrument; or, in a literary sense, a peg-like word, serving to fill a gap (8) |
| ASPERSES | Slanders, in a literary sense, local fools holding a gent up (8) |
| SUSURRUS | Check out local taking in old city going to Russia for the rustling, in the literary sense (8) |
| BARITONE | The singer in a local one has it in for (8) |
| ETHERNET | A wired system for connecting computers in a local network (8) |
| ARMCHAIR | Place for sitting president to support American marines (8) |
| ACCENTED | Spoken in a local way, as stressed (8) |
| ORMSKIRK | Market town north of Liverpool noted for its gingerbread (now celebrated in a local festival) (8) |
| ABERDEEN | Northern city's deer dispersed in a local peak (8) |
| OPERATES | Essential to Knesset, a report that's written up works (8) |
| ATHLETIC | ... fragments of Homer's lost epic in Greek fit (8) |
| UNCROWNS | Hit in a local square gets rid of ruler |
| BRASILIA | Supporters shortened epic in capital (8) |
| SPECIFIC | Particular detail diminished sci-fi epic in some way |
