| TRUMPERY | Short brass instrument lines can be showy but worthless |
| NAFF | Meant to be showy, but in poor taste (4) |
| MONET | Short brass tacks, primarily for artist (5) |
| CELLO | Instrument lines caught by leader in company (5) |
| OCTET | From Latin for "eight", a group of eight bells, electrons, elves, instruments, lines of verse, milkmaids, mistletoe berries, musicians, performers or other people/things (5) |
| INDESTRUCTIBLE | But, credit lines can be permanent (14) |
| NIELLIST | Engraver: his first lines can be found in reverse of metal |
| ADVERSE | Commercial lines can be unfavourable (7) |
| FALDEROL | Showy but worthless trifle (variant spelling) (8) |
| TINSEL | Listen to Labour ___ it's showy but worthless (6) |
| FOLDEROL | Dessert containing large foreign article is a showy but worthless trifle (8) |
| TAWDRY | Showy but worthless (6) |
| ILLDEFINED | A long line can be described accurately, but it has no clear outline (3-7) |
| ERE | Before the person next in line can be heard |
| MODEL | State of being on line can be a pattern (5) |
| EMOTIONAL | Best book when recollected, a line can be heart-warming (9) |
| ELIAN | Lamblike as a line can be (5) |
| DRESSY | Yes! Little doctors are apt to be showy (6) |
| QUOTA | Questionably, no by-lines can have a limit (5) |
| UP | What squiggly lines can represent |
