| DIVERTIMENTO | Musical piece: it's recurring in Monteverdi composition |
| INSTRUMENTAL | Like a musical piece - it's of help (12) |
| MADRIGAL | Typical Monteverdi composition |
| CLAUDIO | Not much volume to sound in Monteverdi |
| PARTITA | Musical piece: it's interpolated into separate one (7) |
| GROUNDHOGDAY | When unwelcome events seem to be recurring in exactly the same way? (9,3) |
| GARAGE | Flipping jazzy piece - it's just a number in musical style (6) |
| TILE | Whether an azulejo, handmade Delft-patterned square, terracotta slab, tessera or Scrabble/mah-jong piece, its name, from "to cover", refers to its fundamental function since ancient roofs were first l |
| LOOSE | Free love recurring in college (5) |
| LEAD | Clue recurring in puzzle, a debatable addition (4) |
| ACHE | Pain recurring in stomach each evening (4) |
| CAREWORN | Worrying about noise recurring in Alcatraz, say |
| STIR | Nothing comes from disturbances recurring in prison |
| IRISMURDOCH | Problem, non-religious, recurring in Hibernian writer |
| ANTS | Little creatures recurring in Dali paintings |
| CYCLIC | Some fancy cliche recurring in series (6) |
| ONTHEMEND | Improving new image recurring in Bond, initially discarded (2,3,4) |
| VISCERA | Organs recurring in a service vicar's organised (7) |
| THEMES | Topics; or, ideas/motifs recurring in works of art or literature (6) |
| CRYPTICCLUE | Set piece - it's spelt out, as you can hear, in the other across solutions (apart from 23) (7,4) |
