| Rating | Solver | Clue |
|---|---|---|
| LYRE | Old instrument | |
| LUTE | Old instrument | |
| REBECK | Old stringed instrument | |
| HARPSICHORD | Old piano-like instrument | |
| VIOL | Old stringed instrument | |
| MANDOLIN | Old man in confusion over musical instrument | |
| SALUTE | Hail is returning, as seen with old instrument | |
| LEAPER | A kind of hooked instrument for untwisting old cordage. | |
| ORPHARION | An old instrument of the lute or cittern kind. | |
| VIELLE | An old stringed instrument played upon with a wheel; a hurdy-gurdy. | |
| RACKETT | An old wind instrument of the double bassoon kind, having ventages but not keys. | |
| THUMBSCREW | An old instrument of torture for compressing the thumb by a screw; a thumbkin. | |
| ASTROSCOPE | An old astronomical instrument, formed of two cones, on whose surface the constellations were delineated. | |
| QUADRAT | An old instrument used for taking altitudes; -- called also geometrical square, and line of shadows. | |
| ZITHER | ... in playing on it. [Not to be confounded with the old lute-shaped cittern, or cithern.] ... | |