| ROCKING | Playing loud music or a lullaby? (7) |
| CROON | Sing a love song or a lullaby |
| ONEAM | Too late to be playing loud music in your apartment |
| ASBO | Christmas box contains something given for playing loud music? (4) |
| HOODLUM | Punk playing loud interrupts household no end (7) |
| ROUSING | Such a chorus as a lullaby won't have? (7) |
| REPLICA | Word, from "answer, reply", for a repeat in music; or, a copy in art (7) |
| MEASURE | Bar of music; or, a unit of verse (7) |
| COMPOSE | Write (music or a story) (7) |
| TREETOP | Locale for a rocking cradle, in a lullaby |
| CECILIA | Patron saint of music, or a Simon & Garfunkel hit |
| SWEETLY | How a lullaby is sung |
| LOVEYOU | Munsch book featuring a lullaby |
| FOREVER | Munsch book featuring a lullaby |
| THRESH | Word, from "beat seeds out of corn/grain", for a chastising flog with a whip, a fast race, a flail or writhe about, a lavish noisy party, a loud piece of rock music or a severe trounce (6) |
| STAND | Adjustable frame for holding a score or sheet music; or, a platform in a park for a brass band (5) |
| THRASH | Informal word for a loud, lavish party; a subgenre of hard-core heavy metal or rock music; or, a fast exhilarating motor race (6) |
| LICK | A light coat of paint; a short stock phrase in jazz, pop or rock music; or, a quick movement of a flame (4) |
| THEME | A topic; a recurrent idea in art/ literature; a motif/subject in music; or, a setting given to a pub/restaurant (5) |
| FLOURISH | Word for "burgeon, prosper, thrive"; a mass of blossom; an embellishment in handwriting or scrollwork; an ostentatious display; a showy passage of words; a grandiose passage of music; or, a trumpeter' |
