| PLECTRUM | Small flat tool used to pluck or strum a stringed instrument (8) |
| SPADE | Empty safe filled with flat tool (5) |
| EPILATOR | Electrical appliance used to pluck out unwanted hairs (8) |
| PULLDOWN | Use a bulldozer to pluck feathers? (4,4) |
| PICKINGS | Gathered berries, harvested crops, illicit gains, leftovers/scraps, strums of guitar strings or thefts from pockets, but all involving plucking (8) |
| TRUMPETS | After missing intro, strums, clutching favourite musical instruments (8) |
| PLUCK | A short sharp pull of an eyebrow, fowl's feather or fruit from a tree; a strum or twang of a musical string; or, the heart, liver and lungs of an animal, hence courage, guts, heart or spirit (5) |
| PLECTRUMS | They are used to pluck strings |
| BROW | Facial feature that you might pluck or thread |
| IEST | Pluck or hair extension? |
| GUTSY | Having pluck or nerve (5) |
| GRIT | Pluck or nerve |
| GUITAR | You need to learn to strum to play it (6) |
| SALUTE | Start to strum an instrument as a form of greeting (6) |
| HARP | Instrument you need to pluck up courage to play? (4) |
| BANJO | This five-stringed, lollipopshaped cousin of a guitar is fun to strum (especially if you like bluegrass music) |
| SHARP | Being keen, start to strum string instrument (5) |
| LEGERE | To pluck (info from) so, to read: excerpere ergo recitare |
| RIPE | Ready for a farmer to pluck off the vine |
| POTLUCK | A meal to pluck out of nowhere? (7) |
