| TREMOLO | A wavering tonal effect in music |
| DISTORTION | Process of being twisted out of shape; that which is warped; a change of waveform as a fuzzy effect in music; or, misrepresentation of the truth (10) |
| SLUR | An aspersion with a smooth effect in music (4) |
| VIBRATO | Tremulous effect in music |
| TRILL | Quavering effect in music |
| GLISSANDO | Sliding effect in music (9) |
| EARTHSHINE | There's a wavering around most of back lighting effect on the moon |
| SOSO | Repetitive response, sometimes signalled with a shrug or a wavering hand, meaning "comme ci, comme ca" or "neither good nor bad" (2-2) |
| TREMOLOS | Wavering effects, in music |
| GLIMMER | Shine faintly with a wavering light |
| FLICKER | Burn unsteadily; shine with a wavering light (7) |
| STICKTOYOURBUNS | Advice for a wavering pastry chef? |
| VIBRATOS | Pulsating effects, in music |
| SEMITONE | Smallest musical interval used in western tonal music also called a half step (8) |
| AQUATINT | From "coloured water", a watercolour-like print created via a tonal method of printmaking, sometimes involving a dust-box (8) |
| MODAL | Type of harmony contrasted with tonal harmony, in music |
| TALON | Tonal variation in a hooked nail (5) |
| ALANPATON | Unfairly pan a tonal composer (4,5) |
| TIMBRE | Tempo retains empty bar in tonal quality |
| ORTOLAN | Alternatively, tonal variation may be given to a bird (7) |
