| TENUTO | A musical note or chord held longer than its normal duration |
| TERM | Normal duration of a pregnancy |
| STEM | Section forming part of a ship, bike, wine glass, watch, musical note or letter; or, a structure that supports a flower, fruit or leaf (4) |
| SFORZATO | Musical term indicating a note or chord is to be played with a dynamic accent |
| PHRASE | A group of words collectively forming a conceptual unit; a sequence of musical notes or dance steps, sometimes likened to a written sentence; or, in the Scots language, flowery, fussy talk about feeli |
| ACCENT | Emphasis on a note or chord |
| SYMBOL | An emblem or ideogram, such as a musical note, pictorial icon on a map key/legend or a letter representing a chemical element (6) |
| NATURAL | Synonym of organic, pure or raw; a buff colour; a person of innate talent; a white piano key; or, a musical note, neither flat nor sharp, denoted J (7) |
| SCALE | Either of the two pans of a balance; a series of musical notes; or, a graduated measure (5) |
| CHORD | A simultaneous combination of harmonic musical notes; or, an old or poetic word for a harp string (5) |
| IDAHO | Its southern border is about seven times longer than its northern one |
| SNIPE | Bird with a bill much longer than its head |
| TONES | Shades, hues or tints of colours; characters of sounds; musical notes or jingles of phones; or, recitative melodies in Gregorian chants (5) |
| STEMS | Botanical structures supporting flowers, fruits, leaves or the caps of mushrooms; vertical strokes in letters or musical notes; or, the main lines of descent in families (5) |
| NETES | Memoranda or marginalia; musical notes; or, bird songs (5) |
| CHORDS | Harmonic sets of musical notes; or, a literary word for harp strings (6) |
| STINGRAY | Fish whose tail is longer than its body |
| CHILE | Country about 12 times longer than its widest point |
| VENUS | Planet whose day is longer than its year |
| PACER | AMC model whose passenger's side door was longer than its driver's side door |