| HARMONY | Quality found in an aria or a hymn, when done right (7) |
| FINEDAY | There's one in an aria (4,3) |
| AIR | Oxygen; an aria; or, a breeze (3) |
| INTROMIT | Once let in, observed introductory hymn when mass is held |
| ASSET | Useful quality found in donkey by friendly alien (5) |
| LACINESS | Quality found in mantillas |
| CAROL | One of the fanciful words for a collective blush, breast, gift, reliant or ruby of robins; an old English ring dance; the fluted ballad accompanying it; or, a hymn of joy, aka noel, that is chanted in |
| FRESHNESS | New quality found by serfs messing about with hens (9) |
| STRETTO | Part of an aria or fugue (7) |
| CANARY | Yellow finch known collectively as an aria or an opera and formerly employed as a colliery gas detector; a Madeira-like wine; or, an informal word for a jailbird or a soprano (6) |
| INCOMER | An immigrant might get paid for work done, right at the end (7) |
| TROOPER | The sort of soldier who likes fish eggs when done in port (7) |
| BUCKLED | Bent out of shape when done up (7) |
| BOULDER | Rock is more distinct when done acoustically (7) |
| CADENZA | Solo playing can daze when done badly (7) |
| TRICKED | Done right, getting appropriate mark outside |
| ANNOYED | Displeased when done any wrong (7) |
| OPENEND | Unlimited when done with pen |
| TICKOFF | Mark when done for discipline |
| RITORNELLO | An orchestral passage between verses of an aria or song |
