| STEELBANDS | Groups of instrumentalists discordant endless beat, lacking ecstasy (5,5) |
| BANDS | Rings groups of instrumentalists (5) |
| THRUM | Endless beat about right - to describe this? (5) |
| PULSE | Cry over endless beat (5) |
| ENSEMBLE | Collective group of instrumentalists or singers performing together; a person's coordinated outfit; or, the chorus of a ballet company (8) |
| ORCHESTRA | In the end, arts go back to revolutionary or group of instrumentalists (9) |
| CHAMBERMUSIC | Works for a small group of instrumentalists (7,5) |
| BAND | Group of instrumentalists (4) |
| ORCHESTRAS | Word for large ensembles of musicians or instrumentalists; or, by extension, collective "symphonies" of chirping crickets or piping avocets (10) |
| SAPPHIC | Queer chappies lacking ecstasy for Lesbian (7) |
| SIZE | Lacking Ecstasy, take glue (4) |
| QUIP | Lacking ecstasy, supply crack |
| TRIO | On the pattern of solo, duo etc, a word for a group of three singers or instrumentalists; or, a piece of music written for them to perform (4) |
| QUARTET | A piece of music for a group of four singers or instrumentalists (7) |
| NONET | Piece of music composed for a group of nine instrumentalists (5) |
| NONETS | Groups of nine instrumentalists or singers (6) |
| SEPTET | A group of seven singers or instrumentalists or a piece of music composed for such a group |
| DRUMMED | How the instrumentalists played on the twelfth day of Christmas (7) |
| OCTET | A combo of eight instrumentalists (5) |
| ORGANISTS | Frenchman Charles-Marie Widor born in 1844 was noted as one of these instrumentalists (9) |
