Song cycles "about" a mountain? On the contrary, it's "in" (7)
I believe the answer is:
amongst
'the contrary it's in' is the definition.
I know nothing about this answer so I cannot tell whether this works.
'song cycles about a mountain?' is the wordplay.
'cycles' indicates an anagram.
'about' indicates putting letters inside.
'mountain?' becomes 'mt'.
'song' is an anagram of 'ongs'.
'a'+'mt'='amt'
'ongs' inserted within 'amt' is 'AMONGST'.
'on' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for amongst that I've seen before include "In the midst of" , "Having been absorbed, perhaps" , "Within the group of" , "In the middle of two or more" , "Together with" .)