| PIZZICATO | Pulling the strings of a violin etc. with fingers rather than by using the bow (9) |
| SHORTCUTS | Methods of achieving things more quickly or easily than by using the usual methods (9) |
| CONARTISTS | People pulling the strings of a racket? |
| STRINGS | With violins etc attached there are awkward complications (7) |
| BRIDGE | Piece of wood supporting the strings of a violin, guitar etc |
| 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 |
| PUPPETEER | One pulling the strings? (9) |
| TELEPATHY | The supposed communication of thoughts or ideas otherwise than by the known senses |
| TABLATURE | System of writing down music to be performed other than by use of notes (9) |
| TRUENORTH | Top of the world? Actually yes, this is missed by using the needle (4,5) |
| DISRUPTED | It's to be broken up by using the red, stupid! (9) |
| LUMINESCE | To emit light other than by incandescence (9) |
| EMPTYNETS | Results of "pulling" the goalie, in hockey |
| WOLF | Large canine such as Rudyard Kipling's Akela; or, a non-harmonic note or tone made by the bow on a string of a violin or cello (4) |
| DIVORCE | In spite of the rhyme, Henry VIII achieved his separation from Anne Boleyn by annulment rather than by this form of dissolution of marriage |
| STRUMS | Sounds the strings of a guitar or banjo with the sweep of a thumb or plectrum (6) |
| STRUM | To sound the strings of a guitar or banjo with the sweep of a thumb or plectrum (5) |
| CROWNCOURT | In England and Wales, a place in which criminal cases are tried by a judge and jury rather than by a magistrate (5,5) |
| PEGTOP | Pear-shaped wooden teetotum spun on its metal pin by means of pulling the string in which it is wound; or, a description of voluminous trousers that taper at the ankles (3-3) |
| PLECTRUM | What do you call the small piece of plastic etc used to pluck the strings of a guitar? (8) |
