| SUPER | Great evening meal down by a piano? |
| TRIO | Maroon 5, if two members were crushed by a piano (hey, a guy can dream) |
| APHID | Pest concealed by a piano (5) |
| SHEETMUSIC | Pages read by a piano player |
| CRUDELY | It's simply a vineyard down by a cathedral (7) |
| LEGACY | A bequest or thing handed down by a predecessor (6) |
| ESKER | A ridge of stones laid down by a retreating glacier (5) |
| MOTOWN | Run down by a car: about to get a record of Detroit? (6) |
| ANTE | A fixed stake put down by a poker player before the deal (4) |
| TOSCA | Let down by a faulty stage dagger, Maria Callas wounded baritone Tito Gobbi during a performance of |
| COLBERT | Claudette ___ played a runaway heiress tracked down by a brash newspaper reporter in this 1934 film (7) |
| LIEDTO | Stretches out to touch down by a post and fakes a CV (4,2,4,1,3) |
| LANDAJOB | Stretches out to touch down by a post and fakes a CV (4,2,4,1,3) |
| TREASURE | Large plant cut down by a certain valued friend (8) |
| SILT | Sediment brought down by a river (4) |
| CIRCA | Approximately round figure down by a third on area |
| STAGEDAD | Father in fashionable braces put down by a typist (5,3) |
| STRICKEN | Brought down by a gunman inside (8) |
| LOSEBIG | Be down by a large amount of money (colloq) (4,3) |
| SPACEBAR | Father in fashionable braces put down by a typist (5,3) |