| FINGERBOARD | Part of a stringed instrument |
| FRET | Part of a stringed instrument |
| FRETBOARD | Part of a stringed instrument (9) |
| SCROLL | Volute or similar motif in the form of a curl of paper/parchment, as seen in art, on the capital of a column or at the end of a stringed instrument such as a violin (6) |
| CHEVILLE | French word for a peg of a stringed instrument; or, in a literary sense, a peg-like word, serving to fill a gap (8) |
| HARMONICS | The overtones of a fundamental note, as produced by lightly touching the string of a stringed instrument at one of its node points while playing |
| CHEVALET | Bridge of a stringed instrument (8) |
| ARCO | The bow of a stringed instrument (4) |
| BASSIST | Player of a stringed instrument (7) |
| DILUTE | An early dismissal of a stringed instrument to make thinner |
| NUT | What is the fixed ridge on the neck of a stringed instrument over which the strings pass? (3) |
| VIOLISTS | Players of a stringed musical instrument called a Bratsche in German (8) |
| CELLO | Short or abbreviated name of a stringed, plucked musical instrument played by Julian Lloyd Webber (5) |
| AEOLIANHARP | A stringed instrument that produces a musical sound when a current of air passes over the strings (7,4) |
| FLUTE | Give a stringed instrument a new top and it becomes a woodwind (5) |
| PEG | Item in various guises used for a tent, a washing line, tuning a stringed instrument, cribbage, croquet or mountaineering (3) |
| THRUM | A play on a stringed instrument; the imitative sound of said rhythmical or monotonous plucking; or, any continuous buzz or vibration (5) |
| VIOLA | A flower and a stringed instrument |
| HARPY | Like a stringed instrument? That's one of the 20 for you (5) |
| SPICCATO | Jittery accompanist abandons man's style of playing a stringed instrument (8) |
