| WOODWIND | Instruments such as clarinets and oboes (8) |
| REEDED | Regarding Harcourt and Sheeran, say, as clarinet and saxophone? (6) |
| REEDS | First off, produces clarinets and oboes (5) |
| INTHEWIND | Astir amongst the clarinets and oboes? (2,3,4) |
| DAMAGINGWINDS | Smashing clarinets and oboes? |
| STRINGED | Like an instrument such as a harp (8) |
| PLECTRUM | A device used to play the strings of a musical instrument such as a guitar (8) |
| APERTURE | The diameter of the opening through which light passes in an optical instrument such as a camera (8) |
| LATINPERCUSSION | Instruments such as maracas and congas |
| PERC | Instruments such as drums and cymbals: Abbr. |
| PARTCH | Harry, American composer and inventor of instruments such as the chromelodeon (6) |
| SKIFFLE | A genre of jug band folk music often incorporating homemade instruments such as cigar box guitars, comb kazoos, Swanee whistles, tea chest basses and washboards (7) |
| DRUMS | Instruments such as timpani (5) |
| REEDORGANS | Keyboard instruments such as harmoniums or melodeons (4,6) |
| CYMBALS | Percussion instruments such as majutaals |
| CONSORT | Spouse of a reigning monarch; an accompanying ship; or, a group of instruments, such as a chest of viols (7) |
| WOODS | Barrels or barriques for Bordeaux or other wine; biased bowling balls; blocks for printing; or, non-brass wind instruments such as bassoons (5) |
| PENS | From the Latin for "feathers", word for quills or writing instruments, such as the styli with which schoolmaster Cassian of Imola was stabbed to death by his own students (4) |
| STRINGBAND | Musical group using instruments such as banjos, fiddles or guitars (6,4) |
| WINDINSTRUMENTS | Flutes and oboes, for two |
