| OBOISTS | Sadly, bit so-so, these instrumentalists! (7) |
| ORGANISTS | Frenchman Charles-Marie Widor born in 1844 was noted as one of these instrumentalists (9) |
| WHITEIBIS | Long-beaked bird sadly bit his wife - without fail (5,4) |
| BOOZIER | I bore when drunk, having a little bit, then having more (7) |
| DRUMMED | How the instrumentalists played on the twelfth day of Christmas (7) |
| QUARTET | Group of four singers or instrumentalists (7) |
| VIOLINS | Early instrumentalists? (5,7) |
| PLAYERS | An afterthought about better instrumentalists (7) |
| BEINCONTACT | Connect a bit, so as to connect a bit! (2,2,7) |
| SIDEMEN | Instrumentalists supporting the principal performer |
| CHAMBER | Performance by a few instrumentalists, - - - music |
| PIRATES | Tapers wrongly passing around instrumentalist's original? (7) |
| NOBODIES | Ciphers using truncated bit, so done badly |
| RUMINANT | Smallest around main bit so let him chew it over (8) |
| ALPHABETICALLY | All in order so - these words? |
| GUMTREES | So these could become gruesomest homes for koalas? (3,5) |
| LIABILITIES | Pounds one will get with skills - so these can be paid off? |
| BACTERIA | So these bugs made a mess of aerobatics? (8) |
| INTHISWAY | So, these directions may be attached to entrance (2,4,3) |
| IDAHO | I had a tool cut down a bit, so was in a state (5) |
