| INCHARGE | As conductor is, hearing principal of cellos going wrong |
| SESSIONS | US composer is hearing soprano |
| OSCAR | Nancy and Darren Osborne's son who is hearing impaired in Hollyoaks (5) |
| CRUSTY | Irritable leader of cellos - out of practice (6) |
| BATON | Keep going at the wicket as conductor takes one in hand (5) |
| BEECHAM | Wood, a leader of men, as conductor |
| AMATI | Family of Cremonese luthiers who developed and standardised the shape of cellos, violas and violins (5) |
| LOOSE | Unrestrained solo work on second of cellos (5) |
| INCUBUS | Indium-copper conductor is a source of difficulty |
| MAESTRO | Conductor is French, though involved in a lot of Roman playing |
| GUIDE | Conductor is caricatured, by the sound of it (5) |
| HAYWIRE | Festival conductor is out of control (7) |
| FACINGTHEMUSIC | What conductor is doing answering for consequences of his actions (6,3,5) |
| DRAG | Out of uniform, retired conductor is a bore (4) |
| THATSFLAT | As conductor may comment on note: "I mean it!" (5,4) |
| OHMIC | Officer conveying Her Majesty, one behaving as conductor would? (5) |
| LEARNED | Scholarly composer acted as conductor outside |
| ELECTROLYTE | Pick young Toscanini originally in part as conductor |
| FACETHEMUSIC | Brave one's critics as conductor does? (4,3,5) |
| TEACH | Train heads to England as conductor hollers (5) |
