| PARTITA | Piece of Bach, perhaps: leave it alone to start with (7) |
| NOTEDLY | Famously, how Bach perhaps composed? (7) |
| STET | "Leave it alone," to a proofreader |
| SOLITAIRE | One plays it alone to Israeli after refreshment (9) |
| ABSTAIN | Rating it's an alternative way to leave it alone (7) |
| MOVEOUT | Perhaps leave one's castle forever exposed after rook to b4? (4,3) |
| SALADIN | Old Kurdish leader perhaps leaves home (7) |
| LETITBE | Song by the Beatles, so leave it alone! |
| ISHMAEL | "And I only am escaped alone to tell thee" writer |
| INAHOLE | One working alone to save husband having money problems (2,1,4) |
| GSTRING | Air on the ___, Wilhelmj's arrangement of Bach (1,6) |
| GAVOTTE | Movement in several of Bach's French Suites |
| EXEAT | Perhaps leave with former lover to make tea (5) |
| SOLI | Alone to begin with it's now with Lois |
| LILYOFTHEVALLEY | Perhaps leave lofty hill with unknown flower (4,2,3,6) |
| STRUMPET | Prostitute's "Leave it alone!" as bottom's pinched |
| BACHELOR | Opening of Bach chorale is somehow kind of flat |
| PROHIBIT | Whizz over finale of Bach, needing one piece for bar (8) |
| COCHLEAR | Moving third part of Bach chorale connected with the listener at a deep level (8) |
| REPROACH | Extra with role in interpretation of "Bach Opera" is faultless - w 9ac (5,8) |
