| TETEATETE | Notes a note, then half-note, in private talk (4-1-4) |
| SERENADED | Calm, getting a note, then another, sung (9) |
| DONATE | Give you a note - a note scribbled on (6) |
| MEMO | Third note, then second note (4) |
| BIRDSONG | It might come from robins, holding one note, then another (8) |
| GASPEREAU | Alewife wants ciggy then half a cake (9) |
| STILLLIFE | Even so, half of wildlife is a subject for artists (5,4) |
| OVENREADY | Johnson's deal was so half-baked? (4-5) |
| DANDELION | The boy notes a cat and a flower (9) |
| ONEONONES | Private talks |
| MINIM | From the Latin for "smallest", a half-note in music; a small creature or being; an apothecaries' measure equal to one drop of water; or, a downward stroke in calligraphy (5) |
| HEADSTONE | The boss notes a cemetery item |
| EIGHTHS | What's left when heights are cut down by half, then half, then half again (7) |
| MINIMS | Half notes in music |
| ASITWERE | A literary trio swapping lines for note, so to speak (2,2,4) |
| STEM | What a half note has that a whole note doesn't |
| TREACLE | Last of sugar in drink, then half of eclair wasted as sweet stuff (7) |
| OXEN | Returned a quarter, then half of exotic animals |
| NAZARETH | Biblical town where a river entering headland then half disappeared |
| ENSUE | Follow in due course then half use change |