| BRASILIA | Supporters shortened epic in capital (8) |
| ATHLETIC | ... fragments of Homer's lost epic in Greek fit (8) |
| MAINTAIN | Support American state report that's epic, in a local literary sense (8) |
| SPECIFIC | Particular detail diminished sci-fi epic in some way |
| RAMAYANA | One of the two major Sanskrit epics in Hinduism |
| TITANIC | Ship is back in an epic, in a title role! (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) |
| THESIGNOFTHECROSS | Cecil B DeMille epic in which Claudette Colbert bathes in asses' milk (3,4,2,3,5) |
| TROY | 2004 epic in which Brad Pitt played Achilles |
| AENEID | Epic in Latin by Virgil |
| INTRINSIC | Genuine, inward, quaint florin is epic in halves (9) |
| BICEPS | Strange epic in books ends with muscle (6) |
| ILIAD | Epic in which Hector is slain |
| SPECIFY | Clearly identify complicated epic in science fiction yarn initially (7) |
| BEOWULF | Old English epic in which the dragon Grendel is mortally wounded |
| SPENSER | Edmund -; poet who wrote the allegorical epic in praise of Elizabeth I The Faerie Queene (7) |
| RECITE | Declaim the start of the epic in a trice, maybe (6) |
| PRECIPICE | Steep fall for the odd epic in the amount charged (9) |
| 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) |
| THETEMPLE | Harrison Ford epic, Indiana Jones and ...of Doom (3,6) |
