| HAUNTING | Hard to forget, as a melody |
| UNTEACH | Cause to forget, as a bad habit |
| NOTATE | Write out, as a melody in one's head |
| RUBSIN | Won't let forget, as a defeat |
| UNSEE | Forget, as a repulsive image |
| COCKATRICE | Monster bird -- a number of times it crowed -- hard to forget (10) |
| CATCHY | Hard to forget |
| EARWORM | More war-wounded, number hard to forget? (7) |
| DURHAM | Hard to forget duck by poor player in university |
| TROUNCE | Cane hurt once -- sadly hard to forget (7) |
| ICING | Sweet thing hard to forget in ancient Chinese text (5) |
| STICKSINTHEMIND | Is hard to forget |
| MEMORABLE | Hard to forget |
| LEOTOLSTOY | Russian play connected with Othello's particularly hard to forget (3,7) |
| MARIMBAS | Percussion instruments spoil this person's party -- hard to forget (8) |
| ORNAMENT | A knick-knack or trinket, such as a vase or a Staffordshire figurine; a musical flourish embellishing a melody; anything serving to add beauty, credit, grace or honour; or, said decorations collective |
| AIR | Invisible gaseous mixture through which radio or sound waves travel; a breeze or zephyr, such as that needed to disperse a samara; a melody; or, the "flight" of a skier mid jump (3) |
| STRAIN | Breed or stock; a trait; a melody; deformation of a material from stress in physics; an intense effort; or, a sprain incurred as a result of said wrench (6) |
| SLUR | In music, a curved line indicating that a melody is to be played legato or as a single phrase |
| MUSETTE | French bagpipe popular in court circles of the 17th and 18th centuries; a gavotte or pastoral air with a drone bass suggestive of said shepherd's pipe; or, a dance to such a melody (7) |
