| NATURAL | A person with innate talent; a buff or unbleached linen colour; a white piano key; or, the musical sign J (7) |
| SHARPS | Musical #s |
| GLISSANDO | Meaning "to slide", the sweep of a finger along adjacent piano keys or harp strings; or, a similar effect produced on a trombone (9) |
| ASH | Tree related to lilac and olive with distinctive "sooty" buds and seeds resembling bunches of keys; or, the traditional name for the Old English letter or ligature AE or ae (3) |
| YOUREANATURAL | Praise for one with innate talent |
| NATURALS | People with innate talent |
| EBONY | Tree related to the persimmon with dark heartwood traditionally used for black piano keys or chess pieces (5) |
| DUO | The Black Keys or The White Stripes. e.g. |
| TUNING | Adjusting piano keys or string instruments to a proper pitch (6) |
| BEIGE | A fabric of undyed or unbleached wool; or, the neutral buff-, camel-, ecru-, fawn-, mushroom-, oatmeal- or oyster-like colour of said natural cloth (5) |
| ECRU | Unbleached linen colour sometimes forming part of a neutrals palette on a paint swatch (4) |
| EIGHTH | Ordinal following the regnal names of the kings preceding Edward VI and George VI; or, the musical interval also called an octave (6) |
| CRESCENDO | A gradual increase in loudness or the musical direction or symbol indicating this |
| CALICO | A white or unbleached cotton fabric with no printed design |
| IVORY | White piano key |
| IVORIES | The white piano keys (7) |
| IVORYTOWER | One hauling a box of white piano keys? |
| ANTENATAL | A new talent - a change before the happy event |
| HEATH | Sharing its name with an ericaceous moorland habitat, a buff-orange brush-footed butterfly whose satyrid "brown" relatives include the gatekeeper, grayling, marbled-white, ringlet and speckled wood (5 |
| MOTH | An insect, such as a "clothes" tineid, with buff or drab wings (4) |
