| TABLATURE | Form of musical notation indicating hand positions rather than the pitch of notes, used especially for lute and guitar (9) |
| STEERINGWHEEL | Item on which the hand positions were traditionally taught by a pair of clock positions |
| MUDRAS | Yoga hand positions |
| FIST | "Pick one" hand position |
| ASSISTANCE | Hand position — is it raised first? |
| CLEF | The symbol in music used to denote the pitch of notes (4) |
| TIMESIGNATURE | Musical notation indicating the number of beats to a measure (4,9) |
| SLUR | Symbol of a curved line in Western musical notation indicating that two or more notes are to be played without separation (4) |
| INTERVAL | Meaning "space between ramparts", a break between acts of a play or sessions in cricket; or, the distance in pitch of notes (8) |
| SCORES | Incised lines; notches in tallies; sets of 20; or, from an old practice of connecting related staves by lines on a page, sheets of musical notation (6) |
| PEKOE | Black tea, such as the "orange" variety named in honour of the House of Orange, rather than the fruit (5) |
| CHORD | Set of musical notes used by Bach or Dvorak (5) |
| RALLY | It's started from Lisbon for the last couple of years rather than the traditional Paris, the Dakar |
| BUBONIC | Form of plague (rather than the pneumonic kind) that was called the Black Death |
| ALTOCLEF | Piece of musical notation gets a cello playing loudly, keeping time (4,4) |
| LEDGERLINE | Book with long narrow mark in part of musical notation (6,4) |
| COMMENTATE | Report on a short note used to describe the state of play (10) |
| REPEATSIGNS | Musical notations indicating something should be played again |
| TONEROW | Sequence of twelve notes used in serial music |
| PLUM | The Norfolk Cake Company in Downham Market is proud that their Norfolk Cake is one of the only ones to actually contain this fruit, rather than the currant and raisin alternative that many other brand |
