| HAUTBOY | Old word for an oboe |
| HAUTBOIS | Archaic term for an oboe (8) |
| REED | One of two for an oboe |
| STAGER | Old word for an actor; a horse for pulling a passenger/mail-coach; or, an old hand, veteran or other adept of much worldly experience (6) |
| OCULIST | An old word for an ophthalmologist (7) |
| COLL | An old word for an embrace or hug (4) |
| ANTIC | Old word for an absurd act or an actor in a grotesque or ludicrous part such as a clown or buffoon (5) |
| ORDINARY | A penny-farthing; a simple heraldic charge ; or, an old word for an inn or a set-price meal provided (8) |
| HELM | Old word for an armoured hat; something reminiscent of this, such as a guinea-fowl's crown or a cloud capping a mountain; or, a tiller for steering, hence a position of control (4) |
| CRUSE | An old word for an earthenware jar or pot; or, a little bottle or cup (5) |
| TOCSIN | From "touch bell", an old word for an alarm/signal, sounded by a bell (6) |
| FITCH | An old word for an apparently "nasty" polecat; said mustelid's furry pelt or mat; or, a foulmart hair paintbrush, typically round or flat (5) |
| ALEHOUSE | Old word for an inn or tavern (8) |
| GAMP | Old word for an umbrella (4) |
| OSTLER | Old word for an inn's stableman (6) |
| EMMET | Old word for an ant - tourist, according to Cornish locals (5) |
| CUSS | Old word for an expletive, oath or swear; or, a person or animal considered annoying or stubborn (4) |
| STAPLE | Word for something that either joins papers, forms the basis of a meal or holds an oboe's reed (6) |
| DUCK | Aylesbury, eider, Indian runner, mallard, teal ... general name for the wildfowl depicted with an oboe in Sergei Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf (4) |
| TENOROON | Old woodwind instrument intermediate in pitch between an oboe and bassoon, also known as a fagottino (8) |
