Possible Clues:

• Was the first band of several
• Uncorked, say
• Disc lose in the past for 15 across
• Not close to a writer in 17 across
• Disc lose D, not close?
• Not close to write this in an ode
• This needs a 29 down, perhaps, so to write it in an ode
• Might disc lose this in the past
• Thus disc lose D
• Began as writer in huge lexicographical enterprise