| MUTINEER | Fletcher Christian, for example, was mute in ear report (8) |
| IMITATE | One Christian, for example, includes it in copy |
| WAHWAH | Onomatopoeic word for the sound created by moving a mute in and out of a cornet or trumpet's bell; or, a pedal for imitating said effect with an electric guitar (3-3) |
| DAMPER | Mute in music (6) |
| LONGSINCE | "He play'd an ancient ditty ____ mute, / In Provence call'd, ‘La belle dame sans merci'" (Keats) |
| FRIEDEGG | Some breakfast, for example, was kept in another fridge (5,3) |
| DOMINEER | Lead character in drama gets order in ear in audition: "Be overbearing!" (8) |
| PITCAIRN | 2014 stage play by Richard Bean about the mutineers of the Bounty led by Fletcher Christian (8) |
| BELIEVER | Christian, for one |
| STRIDENT | Small pronged thing used in ear-piercing (8) |
| TEACHERS | Lecturers in ear and chest disorders |
| OTOSCOPE | Device for looking in ears |
| EARACHES | Pains in ears |
| COUNTED | Reckoned 1 or 8, for example, was important (7) |
| CLUE | This, for example, was a clew in days of yore (4) |
| PROPERNOUN | Evita, for example, was in favour of nervous Peron meeting peace-makers (6,4) |
| INITIALLY | How laser, for example, was put together at first (9) |
| AUTHORESS | Spark, for example, was hot, as user ordered (9) |
| TUDOR | Henry VIII, for example, was one (5) |
| LORD | Behold, the King's for example - was Haw-haw really one? (4) |
