| PPPS | 'Very very softly' music directive, in the plural here |
| SETES | 'Seven' in Portugal ...but made plural here |
| VIVO | 'lively' music directive |
| STIR | Recipe directive in the kitchen or in the laboratory |
| EATME | Directive in the chapter "Down the Rabbit-Hole" |
| PIANO | Soft, softly (music) |
| PPP | Very, very softly, in music |
| NEUMES | In the plural, what are the symbols used in medieval music notation and still used in notation of Gr |
| ISOLATE | India's very delayed directive in times of Covid |
| NEBULAE | In astronomy and in the plural, what are dark patches in the sky consisting of interstellar gases an |
| RAIL | Horizontal piece in a sash window; family of birds in which the coot, moorhen and corncrake belong; or, in the plural, a racecourse barrier (4) |
| KINGTIDES | In the plural, what is one of the names for the large rise tide at, or soon after, the new moon? (4,5) |
| CHANGEENDS | Directive in tennis after odd-numbered games |
| KISSME | Directive in a Cole Porter musical |
| BOIL | Directive in a pasta recipe |
| PRESS | Directive in some automated messages |
| BASTE | One directive in preparing a turkey |
| KOCHELS | In the plural and named after a German musicologist, what are the serial numbers from the catalogue |
| CLEPSYDRAE | In the plural, what are the devices for measuring time by the regulated flow of water or mercury? (1 |
| ES | What is the variant of "s" for nouns ending in "f" that use "v" in the plural? (2) |
