| KEYBOARD | What do we call the set of keys on a typewriter, etc (8) |
| KEYS | Set of buttons operating a computer, typewriter, etc (4) |
| OLIVETTI | Adriano --, 1901-60, Italian manufacturer of typewriters etc (8) |
| SPACEBAR | Longest key on a typewriter or a computer keyboard (5,3) |
| JANGLE | Sound of keys on a keyring |
| ROBERTA | With 12-Across: Singer who passed away yesterday at the age of 88...which is also the number of keys on a piano, an instrument she was so skilled at that that she earned a piano scholarship to Howard |
| WAINSCOT | What do we call the oak that serves to line the walls of a room (8) |
| ALPHABET | What do we call the letters of a language in their customary order (8) |
| TAVERNER | What do we call the owner of a hotel (8) |
| GRANDSON | What do we call the male offspring of one's daughter (8) |
| CHIVALRY | What do we call the rules and customs of medieval knighthood (8) |
| SWANSONG | What do we call the last work of a composer (4,4) |
| POUNDAGE | What do we call the fee charged per pound in weight or money (8) |
| RESERVES | What, in sport, do we call the second-grade team (8) |
| SEMITONE | What is the difference in pitch between two adjacent keys on a keyboard instrument? (8) |
| BAIL | A bucket for ladling water from a boat; a partition in a stable; a bar on a typewriter; a hoop; a semicircular handle; a crosspiece bridging a wicket's stumps; or, a temporary release from custody (4) |
| ASTERISK | Character on a typewriter |
| CENTSIGN | Shift-6 on a typewriter |
| ULNA | What do we call the bone from the elbow to the wrist on the side opposite to the thumb (4) |
| FOSSIL | What do we call the remains of an animal or plant of a former geological age (6) |
