| TABLATURE | Form of musical notation indicating hand positions rather than the pitch of notes, used especially for lute and guitar (9) |
| MUDRAS | Yoga hand positions |
| FIST | "Pick one" hand position |
| CLEF | The symbol in music used to denote the pitch of notes (4) |
| TIMESIGNATURE | Musical notation indicating the number of beats to a measure (4,9) |
| SLUR | Symbol of a curved line in Western musical notation indicating that two or more notes are to be played without separation (4) |
| PEKOE | Black tea, such as the "orange" variety named in honour of the House of Orange, rather than the fruit (5) |
| INTERVAL | Meaning "space between ramparts", a break between acts of a play or sessions in cricket; or, the distance in pitch of notes (8) |
| SCORES | Incised lines; notches in tallies; sets of 20; or, from an old practice of connecting related staves by lines on a page, sheets of musical notation (6) |
| RALLY | It's started from Lisbon for the last couple of years rather than the traditional Paris, the Dakar |
| BUBONIC | Form of plague (rather than the pneumonic kind) that was called the Black Death |
| CHORD | Set of musical notes used by Bach or Dvorak (5) |
| ALTOCLEF | Piece of musical notation gets a cello playing loudly, keeping time (4,4) |
| COMMENTATE | Report on a short note used to describe the state of play (10) |
| REPEATSIGNS | Musical notations indicating something should be played again |
| PLUM | The Norfolk Cake Company in Downham Market is proud that their Norfolk Cake is one of the only ones to actually contain this fruit, rather than the currant and raisin alternative that many other brand |
| RIGID | Of an airship or dirigible, having a shape maintained by an internal framework rather than the pressure of gas in the envelope (5) |
| VOLGA | The world's longest river flowing into an inland body of water rather than the sea |
| CASHFLOW | Measure of the actual money generated by a business rather than the accounting profit (4,4) |
| INTROVERSION | In psychology, the condition of being interested in one's inner states and processes, rather than the outside world (12) |
