| MESTO | Musical term for a slow sad tempo (5) |
| DIRGE | A slow, sad song or hymn of grief (5) |
| NONET | Musical term for a quarter note, possibly? (5) |
| LARGO | From Latin for "abundant, copious" and Italian for "broad, wide", word for a slow tempo; or, a piece, such as Dvorak's "Hovis symphony", performed in this manner (5) |
| BLUES | Squanders it in slow, sad songs (5) |
| GRIND | Prepare, as for a slow pour |
| DUNCE | Insulting name for a slow learner |
| TEMPO | Musical term for speed and rhythm(5) |
| FORTE | Musical term for 'loud' (5) |
| LENTO | Musical term for slowly (5) |
| OSSIA | Musical term for an alternative passage which may be played instead of the original passage (5) |
| TACET | Musical term for silence |
| MOLTO | Musical term for "very" or "much" |
| CHORD | Musical term for three or more notes played simultaneously |
| ALLEGRO | Italian musical term for a lively, brisk or upbeat tempo (7) |
| LEGATO | Smoothly, a musical term for a piece played with the notes running into each other (6) |
| FIORITURE | From "blossoming, flowering", an Italian musical term for a flourishing or melismatic embellishment or vocal decoration of a melody (9) |
| CRESCENDO | Musical term for a build-up of volume (9) |
| TREMOLO | Musical term for a quavering sequence of notes (7) |
| SLUG | Word for a slow lazy heavy person that was inherited as a name by the slimy nursery-rhyme mate of a snail (4) |
