| CLARINET | Instrument, popular, covered with wine (8) |
| DININGROOM | Where to eat bird's tail, popular covered with curry (6,4) |
| BELLINI | Percussion instrument popular with one opera composer |
| HURDYGURDY | Stringed instrument popular in the Middle Ages |
| LUTE | Stringed instrument popular in Medieval times. (4) |
| BASS | Low-pitched stringed instrument popular in jazz and rockabilly, double ... |
| VIOL | String instrument popular in the 1600s |
| VIOLINIST | Musician makes old instrument popular first (9) |
| NOSEFLUTE | Wind instrument popular in SE Asia (4,5) |
| SYNTH | Electronic musical instrument, popular in the 1980s |
| OBOEDAMORE | Double reed woodwind instrument popular during the baroque era |
| SITARS | Indian instruments popular with British Invasion bands |
| SHAWM | Double-reed woodwind instrument popular in Europe in the medieval and Renaissance periods but subsequently eclipsed by the oboe (5) |
| HAIRPIN | Instrument popular around island: it keeps one’s thatch in place |
| UKES | Stringed instruments popular in the 1920s |
| GAMELAN | Musical ensemble of Indonesia consisting chiefly of metal percussion instruments, popular especially on Java and Bali (7) |
| BRISLING | Bass, served with wine, missing tail of the fish (8) |
| CHASSEUR | French sauce, cooked with wine, mushrooms, etc. (8) |
| RENDERED | About to admit lapse with wine, plastered (8) |
| VERMOUTH | Drink with wine and wormwood (8) |
