| SCRAPING | Playing a fiddle |
| FIELDDAY | Exciting time playing a fiddle with Yehudi at first (5,3) |
| NERO | Roman emperor accused of starting the Great Fire of Rome and playing a fiddle during the blaze (4) |
| STICK | A bow for a fiddle; a conductor's baton; a tall support for a tapering candle; or, a walking-cane (5) |
| FOOTER | A walker; a Scots word for a fiddle or potter about; an informal name for soccer; a kick of the ball in said game; or, type/text at the bottom of a page, in contrast to the header, at the top (6) |
| TAILPIECE | Such a decorative design can be a bit of a fiddle (9) |
| CON | Dialect for a knock; slang for a prisoner; a fiddle, flimflam or fraud; or, from "against", an antonym of "pro" (3) |
| TUNE | Fiddle with a fiddle, maybe |
| FIT | Like a fiddle, in a saying |
| ABRIDGE | Cut, a bit of a fiddle (7) |
| FHOLE | It's a bit of a fiddle kicking animal out of shelter (1-4) |
| BRIDGEHEAD | After a bit of a fiddle, nut advanced position |
| SCAM | Last in Oaks? You can have a punt on it but it's a fiddle! |
| AMATI | Stopping a month in France, finally fit as a fiddle |
| GSTRING | Scanty garment's a bit of a fiddle |
| VIOLIN | Also called a fiddle, this is bowed instrument that evolved during the Renaissance from earlier bowed instruments: the medieval fiddle, the lira da braccio, and the rebec. (6) |
| MIDDLE | There's a new start for a fiddle at the Centre |
| RAVIOLI | Run a fiddle, taking a little off small cases of meat perhaps |
| FADS | A shortening of a fiddle-related word for "trivial nonsense" that is used to mean "crazes, fancies, whims" (4) |
| SIMILES | "Fit as a fiddle" and "free as a bird" |
