| TEAMPLAYER | Side with musician, a cooperative person |
| ALLY | Cooperative person, organisation or state (4) |
| TEAM | Old English for "childbearing" that came to mean a brood or litter; a set of draught animals working together; hence, a cooperative unit of players, forming one side in a game/sport (4) |
| TRIO | Group of three musicians; a set of three aces, kings, queens etc in piquet; or, a cocktail such as an espresso Martini mixed with a cream liqueur (4) |
| PIPER | As a musician, a good cake decorator? (5) |
| BEETHOVEN | Live TV: he is playing with one musician a¦ (9) |
| ARRANGER | Musician, a rapper originally, with Glasgow player? |
| ARTIST | Musician's a good person touring Britain regularly (6) |
| FIDDLER | Musician, a cheat |
| FELA | Nigerian musician, a pioneer of Afrobeat (4,4) |
| KUTI | Nigerian musician, a pioneer of Afrobeat (4,4) |
| HARMONICAPLAYER | Musician, a rhymer, oddly holding Al Pacino back (9,6) |
| VIRTUOSO | Has the skilled musician a strange virus too? |
| STING | This musician's a fraud (5) |
| BANDSMAN | A new key used by sergeant major to go into bar with musician (8) |
| CASUALS | Employees occasionally with musician outside community centre (7) |
| VIOLINIST | Little girl on list, I play with musician |
| COOPER | The line of a cooperative monarch (6) |
| SITAR | Stringed instrument associated with musician and composer Ravi Shankar (5) |
| TRUMPETER | Twitter enthusiast to stop daughter running away with musician |
