| ELASTIC | Least flexible, I note, or adjustable (7) |
| RETENTION | Revise rent, I note, or enter into continued possession (9) |
| TRAMMELS | Old hobbles for horses; hindrances impeding free action/movement; fowling-nets; beam compasses; or, adjustable pothooks in fireplaces (8) |
| TESLA | Least flexible measure of magnetic flux density (5) |
| STERNEST | Least flexible (8) |
| EPISTLE | I slept restlessly after getting the note, or letter (7) |
| TREMOLO | Wavering effect in a musical tone produced by rapid repetition of the same note or of two notes at least a third apart (7) |
| APOSTIL | Marginal note, or gloss, in a piece of text (7) |
| COLOGNE | Pine product with penetrating note or scent (7) |
| TONEROW | Wrote shakily about old note or series of notes |
| MINUTES | Certain notes, or one little letter (7) |
| SWEETFA | Small shirt holds little to note, or nothing at all (5,2) |
| FERMATA | In music, a continuation of a note or rest beyond its normal length |
| LETTERS | Notes or messages |
| STAB | A thrust with an epee, finger, foil etc; an attempt or try; an unpleasant pang; or, a single quick note or "hit" by a group of horns or a keyboard (4) |
| ONER | Informal word for a big lie; a conker that has won a single match; an expert; a heavy blow; a quid, old £1 note or £100; or, a unique or extraordinary person or thing (4) |
| STEM | Section forming part of a ship, bike, wine glass, watch, musical note or letter; or, a structure that supports a flower, fruit or leaf (4) |
| WOLF | Large canine such as Rudyard Kipling's Akela; or, a non-harmonic note or tone made by the bow on a string of a violin or cello (4) |
| FLAG | Cross stroke attached to an eighth note or a sixteenth note |
| SCHEDULE | From the Old French meaning "slip of paper", an explanatory note or appendix in law; or, a timetable (8) |
