| INVIOLATE | Modish instrument - a note is completely untouched |
| MINIM | A note is a little letter |
| ATANEND | A nurse penning a note is finished (2,2,3) |
| OBOE | Woodwind instrument whose A note is traditionally used to tune an orchestra (4) |
| SUBTLER | Blurts out: adding a note is less obvious (7) |
| RESOUND | How a note is heard to ring (7) |
| ESTONIA | Country where a note is forged (7) |
| INNATE | Writing hotel a note is quite natural |
| STATIONED | Still, most of a note is posted (9) |
| ONTHEWAY | Why a note is amended making progress (2,3,3) |
| SCREAM | Yell "Go away!" when a note is popped in (6) |
| TONIC | A note is needed for medicine (5) |
| FIDDLE | Colloquial word for a violin, especially in reference to its use as a folk instrument; a violinist; a petty swindle; or, a manually tricky task (6) |
| DAMPER | A shock absorber; a muffler, mute or sustain pedal for a musical instrument; a car silencer; dialect for bread eaten to quiet the appetite; or, a depressive or subduing influence (6) |
| MORDENT | Musical embellishment in which a note is rapidly alternated with the one immediately below it; from Italian, 'to bite' (7) |
| TENUTO | Musical direction that a note is to be held for or beyond its full time value |
| MAINLINE | Way to travel a man holds doubly modish |
| INELEGANTLY | Modish poem contains a line on worker, perhaps without style |
| INSCRIBE | Modish writer put in a register (8) |
| MOD | A youth of modish dress-consciousness? (3) |
