| STRUMMING | Playing strings? With little hesitation, male has split one of them (9) |
| ALSO | Are people in capital playing strings and other things too? (4) |
| BROTH | Without hesitation, male relative produces thin soup (5) |
| MUSIC | Cubs? I charm 'em playing string quartets etc (7,5) |
| CHAMBER | Cubs? I charm 'em playing string quartets etc (7,5) |
| PLUMBLINE | A string with a metal weight at one end used to determine verticality, depth of water, etc |
| VIOLATING | Breaking string with metallic sound (9) |
| TOMMYFURY | Reality star who has split from Mollie-May Hague (5,4) |
| BULLFINCH | Pyrrhula pyrrhula common bird of which the male has bright red underparts (9) |
| SOMNOLENT | Thus male has no time for self-denial, being languid (9) |
| CHAFFINCH | Songbird, male has pinkish body (9) |
| WATERDEER | Animal native to China and Korea, male has tusks (5,4) |
| MISERABLE | Vile male has the power to control monarch no longer |
| SWIMMINGLY | Half of 8 women and one pair of males split one by one (10) |
| SEAPORT | Split's one small opening cut in part of trousers (7) |
| NOISE | Row with first person to split one's hooter (5) |
| LEGNO | Col -, meaning "with the wood", a term by which a violinist understands they must strike the strings with their bow's stick, rather than with its hair (5) |
| ARCHER | One aiming to pull strings with striking results (6) |
| GUFFAW | Empty talk by a Welsh leader split one's sides (6) |
| STRUM | Play strings with sweep of hand (5) |
