| BOURDON | The heaviest bell of a carillon; the drone of a bagpipe; or, derived from a French word meaning "bumblebee" or "buzz", a 16-foot stopped-flute in a pipe organ (7) |
| DRONE | Bourdon of a bagpipe or a song; or, a male honey bee whose sole aim is to mate with a queen (5) |
| CATSPAW | Breeze forming ripples on the water's surface; a cow-hitch- or lark's-head-like knot; or, derived from a fable, the dupe/pawn of another (4-3) |
| SHRILL | Like the drone of cicadas |
| WHIR | Drone of a drone, say |
| OUSTITI | Tool for opening a locked door from the outside (from a French word meaning "marmoset") |
| SUCRE | A former currency of Ecuador; the constitutional capital of Bolivia; or, a French word meaning 'sugar' (5) |
| MUSETTE | Old French bagpipe or shepherd's pipe played with bellows; a piccolo oboe; or, a cyclist's feed bag (7) |
| LOURE | A slow baroque dance echoing a French bagpipe or musette (5) |
| GUTTA | From the Latin for "drop", one of a series of pendent ornaments in the architrave of a Doric entablature; or, derived from the latex of a tropical plant, a "resist" used in silk painting |
| PIGEON | Derived from a French word for a young dove, the name of a bird related to the aforesaid culver, trained by a peristerophilist (6) |
| TICKET | Derived from a French word that is also the source of "etiquette", a card or slip, such as a travel pass (6) |
| PINOT | Name, from a French word for a coniferous cone, for a variety of blanc, grigio, gris or noir wine grapes forming a cluster likened to said strobilus; or, the vin made from said raisins (5) |
| MAKER | Creator of cabinets, films, hats, shoes or other articles; or, derived from Greek, a word for a poet (5) |
| BELL | Surgeon who partly inspired Arthur Conan Doyle's character Sherlock Holmes; or, any one of a series of musical instruments forming the chime of a carillon (4) |
| GONG | Either of the two bells of a traditional alarm clock; an informal word for a medal; or, a tam-tam (4) |
| TON | Derived from a French phrase meaning "good form", fashionable elite or "beau monde" in Regency society; or, a century in cricket (3) |
| REAMS | Word for bundles of 480 or 500 sheets of paper; or, derived from Sir Walter Scott, large quantities (5) |
| HASH | From a French word for an axe, a coarse chopped mixture of recooked meat/potatoes; or, thought to derive from cross-hatching, the # symbol (4) |
| ORANGE | One of the citrus fruits referred toin a nursery rhyme that lists the bells of a number of London churches (6) |
