| HARPED | Played a stringed instrument |
| BANJO | Jack in Oban played a stringed instrument (5) |
| CHEVILLE | French word for a peg of a stringed instrument; or, in a literary sense, a peg-like word, serving to fill a gap (8) |
| SCROLL | Volute or similar motif in the form of a curl of paper/parchment, as seen in art, on the capital of a column or at the end of a stringed instrument such as a violin (6) |
| CELLO | A stringed instrument played with a bow |
| FLUTE | Give a stringed instrument a new top and it becomes a woodwind (5) |
| PEG | Item in various guises used for a tent, a washing line, tuning a stringed instrument, cribbage, croquet or mountaineering (3) |
| AEOLIANHARP | A stringed instrument that produces a musical sound when a current of air passes over the strings (7,4) |
| VIOLA | A flower and a stringed instrument |
| PIZZICATO | Played by plucking a stringed instrument (9) |
| AEOLIAN | The ___ harp is a stringed instrument that is played by the wind (7) |
| FRET | Any of the ridges set across the fingerboard of a stringed instrument such a lute or guitar, dividing it into sections producing different notes (4) |
| HARMONICS | The overtones of a fundamental note, as produced by lightly touching the string of a stringed instrument at one of its node points while playing |
| THRUM | A play on a stringed instrument; the imitative sound of said rhythmical or monotonous plucking; or, any continuous buzz or vibration (5) |
| TWANGING | Plucking a stringed instrument or talking with a nasal sound (8) |
| FUNICELLO | "Mouseketeers" singer whose surname conceals a stringed instrument |
| MOVINGVIOLATION | Jackson 5 album that contains a stringed instrument |
| LOOKSHARP | Joe Jackson album that conceals a stringed instrument |
| THEMAGICFLUTE | Mozart masterpiece that conceals a stringed instrument |
| ARABS | People known for a stringed instrument called "oud" |
