| MODULATE | Change the tone or pitch (8) |
| BARONETS | Aristocrats will change the tone in tavern rooms (8) |
| LENSFILTERS | They might be used to change the tone of a film |
| INFLECT | Change in tone or pitch (7) |
| MODULATION | Adjustment, as in tone or pitch |
| ASPERITY | Harshness of tone or manner (8) |
| CONTRAST | Degree of difference in tone or colour (8) |
| ELEVATOR | Kind of music or pitch |
| MCCULLUM | Current coach of the KKR, his century in the first ever IPL match set the tone for the event. It also remains KKR's only century to date. |
| HEADNOTE | The tone of a memo from the principal (8) |
| EMOTICON | It uses keyboard characters to convey the tone of an email or text (8) |
| HARANGUE | A tirade, one telephoned, interrupting the tone (8) |
| RESPIGHI | Ottorino, Italian composer noted for the tone poem Pines of Rome (8) |
| BLAIRITE | Political supporter who wouldn't dream of "Lowering The Tone"? (8) |
| SIBELIUS | Finnish composer noted for works including the tone poems Finlandia (1899-1900) and Tapiola (1926) (8) |
| HOWDYEDO | Address in what way it affects the tone at party (3-1'2-2) |
| MEWSFLAT | What the tone-deaf cat does, caterwauling on its roof? (4,4) |
| OFFKEY | Not having the correct tone or pitch (3-3) |
| MOOD | From an Old English word with a range of meanings including courage, fierceness, heart, mind and thought, a noun for one's "good" or "bad" temper; the general atmosphere, feeling or pervading tone; or |
| TUNED | Adjusted a musical instrument to some standard pitch, tone or mood / brought the engine to a proper condition |
