| COOSER | Malcolm Arnold perhaps drops mezzo-piano for Tam O'Shanter's ride? |
| ROBERTBURNS | Poet famous for Tam O'shanter, Auld Lang Syne, etc. (6,5) |
| COMPOSER | A sedative for Arnold, perhaps |
| COMPOSERS | Field - and Arnold, perhaps, cultivated some crops (9) |
| ACCOMPANIST | Approach involving mezzo-piano - an opening for inspired musical partner (11) |
| REINDEER | Dancer perhaps drops broadcast, put off having dropped female (8) |
| SEMPRE | Mezzo-piano in start of sonata before? It's always in the score (6) |
| GASTROPODS | They move slowly as carbon monoxide perhaps drops to ground (10) |
| OMPHALE | Character depicted by Saint-saens with old mezzo piano sound (7) |
| ENSNARE | Andersen perhaps drops duke in trap |
| SCOTCHBONNETS | Types of hot chilli peppers named after their resemblance to tam o' shanters (6,7) |
| AMOS | Prophet into tam-o'shanters (4) |
| HACKLES | A cockerel's raised neck plumage; plumes on tam-o'-shanters. balmorals, glengarries and other regimental bonnets; or, fly-fishing feathers (7) |
| SCOTCHBONNET | Tam- o- Shanter's super- hot pepper? (6,6) |
| BERET | Tam-o'-shanter's French cousin |
| PITCH | Chip in for Tam to do the Highland fling! (5) |
| TAMOSHANTER | An overture by Malcolm Arnold, his Op. 51 (3,8) |
| MASTER | Apparently stream opera by Malcolm Arnold (3,7,6) |
| THEDANCING | Apparently stream opera by Malcolm Arnold (3,7,6) |
| THEOPENWINDOW | Source of moving air in opera by Malcolm Arnold (3,4,6) |
