| MINUTES | Notes of a meeting (7) |
| COMPASS | Device with a magnetised needle for determining direction; or, the range of notes of a voice or a musical instrument (7) |
| RETREAT | Sounds like the abandonment of a meeting (7) |
| CHAIRED | Was in charge of (a meeting) (7) |
| TEEMING | Pouring out of a meeting (7) |
| PRESIDE | Take control of a meeting before the team follow on (7) |
| QUORATE | (Of a meeting) sufficiently well attended to go ahead (7) |
| EJECTED | Threw out, of a meeting say |
| OPERATE | Take note of a musical production, at first, to perform in a theatre (7) |
| MEDIANT | Third note of a scale (music) (7) |
| ASCENT | Whether a mountaineer's scramble or hike up to a neve-capped Alpine sublime, a rising run in the notes of a musical chime or Santa's scale up a chimney at Christmas-time, it's a climb (6) |
| MACHETE | Many long to take note of a heavy knife (7) |
| ATHLETE | At heart, the French had to take note of a top runner (7) |
| ENCODED | English note of a fake sort journalist put in secret form? (7) |
| DEADEND | Make quiet note of a futile process (4,3) |
| KEYNOTE | Home note of a musical scale |
| THEFOURSEASONS | Clumsily rushes notes of a composition (3,4,7) |
| PARTONSNIP | A few notes of a Dolly song? |
| PIPE | A note of a bird; a flute, oat or other musical tube, imitative of such a cheep or chirp; or, something thusly cylindrical, such as a clay, duct, hose or a stick for curling a wig (4) |
| TONALITY | The sum of harmonic relations between notes of a scale |
