| COMPOSE | Write (music or a story) (7) |
| CREATE | Write music or poetry, say (6) |
| ORATORY | Public speaking or a story with without an introductory piece (7) |
| REPLICA | Word, from "answer, reply", for a repeat in music; or, a copy in art (7) |
| ROCKING | Playing loud music or a lullaby? (7) |
| MEASURE | Bar of music; or, a unit of verse (7) |
| QUAVERS | Do they help to write music marked tremolo? (7) |
| ARRANGE | Write music |
| OPENAIR | Circle to write music alfresco (4-3) |
| NOTATES | How one writes music on state disruption (7) |
| CORELLI | Italian composer writes music endlessly, flipping bad (7) |
| SLOWBURNING | Term meaning steadily combusting, fuming or smouldering, either literally or figuratively; or, unfolding contemplatively/ gradually, as in a film or a story (4-7) |
| THRESH | Word, from "beat seeds out of corn/grain", for a chastising flog with a whip, a fast race, a flail or writhe about, a lavish noisy party, a loud piece of rock music or a severe trounce (6) |
| COMEDY | Opposite of tragedy in ancient Greek theatre, symbolised by a sock; humorous film, play or event; or, a story with a happy ending (6) |
| STAND | Adjustable frame for holding a score or sheet music; or, a platform in a park for a brass band (5) |
| LICK | A light coat of paint; a short stock phrase in jazz, pop or rock music; or, a quick movement of a flame (4) |
| THEME | A topic; a recurrent idea in art/ literature; a motif/subject in music; or, a setting given to a pub/restaurant (5) |
| FLOURISH | Word for "burgeon, prosper, thrive"; a mass of blossom; an embellishment in handwriting or scrollwork; an ostentatious display; a showy passage of words; a grandiose passage of music; or, a trumpeter' |
| EXERCISE | Word, from "keep busy, unrestrain", for a military drill, a class assignment, a study in music or a task such as a sit-up during one's time to train (8) |
| YARN | "Thread", often seemingly endless, thus synonymous with a sailor's long rambling fabricated tale, spun out to some length; or, a story generally (4) |
