| MUSICIANS | Players of instruments, like Reiss and Remi (9) |
| EDEN | Bandmate of Theo, Kirby and Remi in Home and Away (4) |
| FOWLER | Lyrik's bassist and Remi Carter's best mate in Home and Away (4,6) |
| DOT | Much-missed EastEnders character who is a relation of both Reiss and Sonia (3) |
| HARPSICHORDIST | Player of instruments, one group of notes first |
| BRASSIERE | Ladies clothing store Reiss arbitrarily withdrew stocks |
| BALALAIKA | Russian instrument like a guitar |
| EGYPT | Country where you'd find musical instruments like the aud, dafe, and kawala |
| BANDORES | Elizabethan wire-stringed instruments like a cittern (8) |
| FIFES | Wind instruments like pipes, but higher in volume (twice) (5) |
| KOTOS | Japanese multi-stringed instruments like long zithers; stook (anag.) (5) |
| BIANCA | Sister of Sonia Fowler who suffered at the hands of the late Reiss Colwell in EastEnders (6) |
| REISSITA | Genus of Middle Eastern moth named after the entomologist Hugo Reiss (8) |
| FIANCE | Murderer Reiss is the _ of Walford nurse Sonia (6) |
| TINTIN | The father of the modern European comic book, Belgian Georges Remi, better known as Herge, created 23 volumes of the adventures of this boy detective and his dog, Snowy |
| CORNETS | Instruments like trumpets |
| IVF | Treatment that Albert Square pair Sonia Jackson and Reiss Colwell hope will give them a baby (1,1,1) |
| RED | Hair colour of 39D's sister, imprisoned by Reiss Colwell in EastEnders (3) |
| SONIA | EastEnders character trying for a baby with Reiss Colwell (5,6) |
| JONNY | ___ Freeman, plays the Square's Reiss Colwell (5) |
