| TOOTRUE | Blow your trumpet and you'll regret it - sadly, that's the reality (3,4) |
| NOTAWORD | "Speak of this and you'll regret it" |
| CUSHIONTHEBLOW | "Your trumpet is too loud without a mute!" |
| GUMS | Might bleed if your trumpet hits them |
| NIRVANA | Blissfulness in vain -rat loses it, sadly (7) |
| ATHEART | Series with Stephen Tompkinson - war halted it, sadly (4,2,5) |
| BRASSES | Tubas, trumpets and the like |
| FRAIDSO | "Yep, sadly that's true" |
| SWINDLE | Fiddle only, nothing less, eclipsing trumpets and flutes etc (7) |
| MUSETTE | Band starts to tune trumpets and euphoniums for a dance |
| ACCRUES | Builds up a hundred cent and regrets it? |
| ENDURE | It's the finish! You'll regret it or suffer! (6) |
| TRUE | Be faithful or you'll regret it after tea (4) |
| ORELSE | 'Otherwise, you'll regret it!' |
| FACT | Internee comes out of Internet caf? and that's the reality of it (4) |
| TUBA | From the Latin meaning "trumpet" and forming part of an orchestra, the largest. lowest-pitched instrument in the brass family (4) |
| SKIRTS | Garments with styles including bell, pencil, puffball, trumpet and tulip; petticoats; the lower edges of a sheep's fleece; or, the flaps covering a saddle's stirrup bars (6) |
| COMPOUNDINTEREST | It accrues, with "censored," "trumpet" and "tremendous" inside |
| FLUEGELHORNS | Brass instruments resembling the trumpet and cornet (12) |
| BRAG | Blow one's own trumpet and use boastful language |
