| NETES | Musical notes; or, bird songs (5) |
| TONES | Shades, hues or tints of colours; characters of sounds; musical notes or jingles of phones; or, recitative melodies in Gregorian chants (5) |
| STEMS | Botanical structures supporting flowers, fruits, leaves or the caps of mushrooms; vertical strokes in letters or musical notes; or, the main lines of descent in families (5) |
| CHORD | A simultaneous combination of harmonic musical notes; or, an old or poetic word for a harp string (5) |
| SCALE | A series of musical notes; or, a graduated measure (5) |
| RILLS | Bird-songs don't start in streams (5) |
| CALLS | Bird songs |
| CHEEP | Bird song of little account is heard (5) |
| TWEET | Bird-song is the best we etymologists can contain (5) |
| CAROL | Bird song? (5) |
| TRILL | Run of bird-song (5) |
| INTRO | Opening notes; or tin (anag.) (5) |
| STENO | Pro at taking notes, or an anagram of "notes" |
| PHRASE | A group of words collectively forming a conceptual unit; a sequence of musical notes or dance steps, sometimes likened to a written sentence; or, in the Scots language, flowery, fussy talk about feeli |
| STEM | Section forming part of a ship, bike, wine glass, watch, musical note or letter; or, a structure that supports a flower, fruit or leaf (4) |
| CHORDS | Harmonic sets of musical notes; or, a literary word for harp strings (6) |
| TENUTO | Of a musical note or chord, held for or beyond its full time value (6) |
| MINIM | Musical half note; or, a short vertical stroke in handwriting (5) |
| BREVE | Note or notes welcoming vicar, perhaps |
| CROMA | An eighth note or quaver (5) |
