| INSTRUMENTAL | Helpful to the orchestra, for example? |
| QUISLING | Who, to the Romans, got Heather and was helpful to the enemy? (8) |
| MUSIC | Noise made by an orchestra, for example (5) |
| KINDLE | Personal pocket library perhaps is helpful to the French (6) |
| EXPEDIENT | Helpful to the result |
| ALMS | Anything charitable can be helpful to the poor people |
| MEDICAL | Helpful to the patient (7) |
| ENSEMBLE | Group of musicians forming a string quartet or orchestra, for example (8) |
| BENJAMIN | Whose 1945 composition The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra shows off the various instruments and sections of the orchestra? (8,7) |
| BRITTEN | Whose 1945 composition The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra shows off the various instruments and sections of the orchestra? (8,7) |
| FACETHEMUSIC | Look to the orchestra to accept the consequences? (4,3,5) |
| SOPRANO | A drunkard ran to the orchestra leader to get the singer (7) |
| SIRADRIANBOULT | Conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra for most of the 1950s |
| BENJAMINBRITTEN | English composer, conductor, and pianist whose works include The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra |
| TUTTI | All together, to the orchestra |
| LOGE | Alternative to the orchestra |
| UPBEAT | Optimistic sign given to the orchestra (6) |
| WAISTBAND | Sash superfluous, we hear, to the orchestra (5-4) |
| ARIOSO | Songlike, to the orchestra |
| RESEAT | Move to the orchestra, maybe |
