| THEISLEISFULLOFNOISES | “Be not afeard. ____, / Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight, and hurt not” (The Tempest) |
| YELLOW | What kids do when hurt, not being brave? (6) |
| PARALYSIS | Plays airs that are cause of movement stopping (9) |
| DOLBY | Ray __, sound and pioneer of audio noise reduction system (5) |
| CELESTIALMUSIC | Heavenly sounds, and what the answers to the starred clues could be called |
| ALLITERATIONS | Words that begin with the same sounds, and are close together (13) |
| PORTMANTEAU | Word blending the sounds and combining the meanings of two others (11) |
| MASEFIELD | Poet Laureate, from 1930-67, who wrote Salt-Water Ballads and children's novels including The Box of Delights and The Midnight Folk (9) |
| HOLIDAY | This Christmas we will have two Bank Days, as in the two varieties of hemerocallis: '___ Delight' and '___ Mood' (7) |
| POOH | Bear featured in the Benjamin Hoff book "The Te of Piglet" |
| WAPITI | The Te Kuiti pawnbroker hides the deer out back (6) |
| FLUTED | Complaint with half the Te Deum being played on a pipe (6) |
| MOUNT | National park, part of the Te W'ahipounamu World Heritage Site (5,8) |
| ASPIRING | National park, part of the Te W'ahipounamu World Heritage Site (5,8) |
| ENTRANCE | Give delight on the way in |
| REGALE | On the blower, give delight |
| NOISES | Harsh sounds and the number is the extremes of evens (6) |
| TICKLE | The moment the Parisian gives delight (6) |
| GRIME | Music genre originating in East London in the early 2000s, characterised by electronic sounds and hip-hop vocals (5) |
| EDEN | Any place of complete bliss and delight and peace. |
