| OCTANS | One of the instruments after which Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille named constellations; or, oneeighth of a circle's circumference (6) |
| ASTRAL | Description of the celestial bodies forming constellations or asterisms (6) |
| DOLDRUMS | Absence of wind instruments after party left (8) |
| REORDERS | Tries to get more wind instruments after offloading 100 (8) |
| NORMA | One of the constellations named by French astronomer Nicolas Louis de Lacaille after scientific instruments (5) |
| MENSA | Faint southern constellation created by Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille in 1754 and named after South Africa's Table Mountain (5) |
| ANTLIA | Small faint southern constellation created by French astronomer Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille in the 1750s; Latin, 'pump' (6) |
| CELLO | One of the instruments used to perform Le Cygne (The Swan) in SaintSaens's The Carnival of the Anima |
| VIOLIN | Played under the chin using a horsehair bow, one of the instruments forming a string quartet or the string section of an orchestra (6) |
| OBOE | One of the instruments in the woodwind section of a symphony orchestra (4) |
| DRUM | One of the instruments forming an orchestra's "kitchen"; or, a revolving cylinder in a washing machine (4) |
| LYRE | Instrument of Sumerian origin having a yoke, or two arms and a crossbar, projecting out from and level with the body. The strings run from a tailpiece on the bottom or front of the instrument to the c |
| CLARINET | One of the instruments used to play Claude Debussy's Premiere Rhapsodie or George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue (8) |
| TUBA | Largest of the instruments in brass section of an orchestra (4) |
| SCUTUM | Latin word for "shield" that refers to a large oblong Roman example of said piece of armour; a constellation; or, one of the protective plates of an armadillo, insect or turtle (6) |
| FISH | A flat piece of bone as a counter in a game; an informal word for a torpedo; or, an ichthys or one of a pair of piscis represented in the constellation or zodiacal water sign Pisces (4) |
| INGRESS | Arrival of the Moon into Earth's shadow in an eclipse; or, the Sun's entrance into a constellation or part of the sky (7) |
| STRUMPET | The tart gets a musical instrument after the start of summer (8) |
| GEMINI | The "Twins" constellation; or, the third sign of the zodiac (6) |
| LIBRA | Scales or Balance constellation; or, one of the three zodiacal air signs (5) |
