| CELLO | Member of a string quartet |
| VIOLA | Member of a string quartet |
| CELLOSUITE | Digs for a member of a string quartet? |
| VIOLIN | Part of a string quartet |
| ONTHEFIDDLE | Cooking the books when part of a string quartet (2,3,6) |
| CELLOMOLD | Target of a string quartet's fungicide? |
| ENSEMBLE | Instrumentalists in a string quartet or orchestra collectively; the chorus of a ballet company; or, a person's coordinated outfit (8) |
| ASTRINGS | Quartet in a string quartet |
| HAGEN | Surname of the four Austrian siblings (Lukas, Angelika, Veronika and Clemens) who formed a string quartet in 1981 |
| YESTERDAY | Beatles' song on the album Help! recorded by Paul McCartney with a string quartet, but without the other members of the group (9)yesterday |
| GROSSEFUGE | Beethoven's Opus 133, a single-movement composition for a string quartet (6,4) |
| OUGHT | Should be heard during a string quartet (5) |
| CHAMBERMUSIC | Compositions for a string quartet (7,5) |
| VIOLAS | No tension in novelisations produced by musicians in a string quartet perhaps (6) |
| ONION | One of a string of alliums traditionally sold by a cycling Breton farmer nicknamed a "Johnny" (5) |
| BEAD | From "prayer", one of a string of paternosters forming a rosary; or, a perforated bugle, ojime, pearl, rondelle or seed for threading generally (4) |
| ROSARY | A sorry arrangement of a string of beads (6) |
| LEOI | First of a string of 13 |
| ABLE | Can be the final part of a string of racehorses (4) |
| ROSEMARY | Maybe, leaves space in the middle of a string of beads |
