| RECORDER | What wind instrument is often the first played by children? (8) |
| BAGPIPES | What wind instrument is most closely associated with Scotland? (8) |
| BASSOON | Slow-growing Balkan maple wood is used in making what wind instrument? (7) |
| SNOWDROP | Woodland, parkland and garden flower, often the first sign of life after the winter and thus a harbinger of spring (8) |
| SERVICES | As is often the case with government housing solutions, a lot of cash will have to be spent with the construction sector to provide basic ... and top structures. (8) |
| ENTERKEY | Pressing it is often the same as clicking the "OK" button |
| PETERPAN | Recurring Broadway role first played by Maude Adams, 1905 |
| REASONED | Reckoned wind instrument is captivating a boy |
| TRUMPET | "... and it comes out here" (this last instrument, by the way, is often the subject of the song) |
| GALE | What wind is 8 on the Beaufort scale? (4) |
| ALPENHORN | What very long valveless wooden wind instrument is used for signalling in the Swiss Alps? (9) |
| OCARINA | What egg-shaped wind instrument is colloquially called a "sweet potato" in the US? (7) |
| HELLO | Often the first thing out of characters' mouths in The Inferno is to do with love (5) |
| CANARY | Until the practice officially ended in 1986, this bird was often the first in the coal mine (or lemon-adjacent shade) |
| PAWN | Chess piece that's often the first to be played |
| RONDO | What is often the last movement of a sonata (5) |
| BUGLE | Which wind instrument is associated with the military? (5) |
| CHIRPY | Oddly, card game played by children is short (6) |
| OCCAMSRAZOR | The simplest answer is often the correct one (2 wds.) |
| ALEXISCOLBY | Character first played by Joan Collins in the first episode of Dynasty's second season in 1981 |
