| LYRICS | Words of a melody |
| TENOR | Word, from "hold", for the holder of a melody first, now a male singing voice; course or progress; or, the gist or purport of a discourse (5) |
| STRAIN | A section of a melody (6) |
| FIORITURE | From "blossoming, flowering", an Italian musical term for a flourishing or melismatic embellishment or vocal decoration of a melody (9) |
| CODA | End of a melody |
| NOTE | Bit of a melody |
| AIR | Atmosphere (of a melody?) (3) |
| MUSICALNOTE | Building blocks of a melody: 2 wds. |
| NOTES | Bits of a melody |
| DERRIERE | Rear to the sound of a melody from an Ulster town (8) |
| HEIR | He will inherit the sound of a melody (4) |
| MUSETTE | French bagpipe popular in court circles of the 17th and 18th centuries; a gavotte or pastoral air with a drone bass suggestive of said shepherd's pipe; or, a dance to such a melody (7) |
| FOREVERAUTUMN | Song, based on a melody that was written as a jingle for a Lego commercial, sung by Justin Hayward on the album Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds |
| TUNE | A melody; a song; the upper part of any simple composition; correct intonation of a musical instrument; or, figurative harmonious adjustment (4) |
| ORNAMENT | A knick-knack or trinket, such as a vase or a Staffordshire figurine; a musical flourish embellishing a melody; anything serving to add beauty, credit, grace or honour; or, said decorations collective |
| MODE | Word for a melody or tune; a manner of acting, behaving, doing or existing; a class of syllogism in logic; or, the prevailing fashion, style or trend in art, clothes, literature etc (4) |
| NEPTUNE | Get a pen and produce a melody about a planet and a king (7) |
| ARCADE | "Without your love; It's a honky tonk parade; Without your love; It's a melody played; At a penny ...," sang Ella Fitzgerald in It's Only A Paper Moon |
| LAY | Word for a ballad or sung poem; a lyric; a melody; the ordinary people, as distinct from the clergy or experts; the appearance of land; the direction rope is twisted in; or, an oyster-bed (3) |
| FORTUNE | A lot of money for a melody (7) |
