| SPIRITLEVEL | Ghost equal to instrument |
| ABUT | Lie next to instrument, back to front (4) |
| PICCOLO | Pluck a bass to listen to instrument |
| UTOPIAN | Turn to instrument, almost too good to be true (7) |
| ACCORDION | Mains flex I added to instrument |
| SPAWNS | Leads to instrument found in ship |
| LOOKSHARP | Beautiful appearance given to instrument quickly! |
| CONSOLE | Give support to instrument panel (7) |
| BUNGLE | Mess up giving name to instrument |
| HARP | Every now and then, review approach to instrument |
| MATTERHORN | A scale that may be difficult, subject to instrument |
| BASSETHORN | Graduates almost fix letter in Old English to instrument (6,4) |
| ABSOLUTE | Rank or rating in this way given to instrument |
| THATSIT | Indicates one's had enough, in exasperation, and points to instrument case? |
| ORGANS | Or hitch up to instruments |
| AMPS | Sound boosters connected to instruments |
| WOODWIND | Collective name given to instruments such as flute, clarinet and oboe |
| ASTRONOMICALUNIT | Distance equal to the mean distance from the centre of the earth to the centre of the sun (12,4) |
| PDL | A unit of force equal to the force that imparts an acceleration of 1 foot/sec/sec to a mass of 1 pou |
| SPAN | Unit of measurement equal to the width of a human hand, or 9 inches; or, the length of a bird's wing from tip to tip (4) |
