| Rating | Solver | Clue |
|---|---|---|
| CELLOS | Stringed instruments | |
| VIOLAS | Stringed instruments | |
| VIOLINS | Stringed instruments | |
| HARPS | Stringed instruments | |
| LYRES | Stringed instruments | |
| UKULELES | Stringed instruments | |
| NEGINOTH | Stringed instruments. | |
| GUITARISTS | Players of stringed instruments | |
| BALALAIKAS | Three-stringed instruments of Russian origin | |
| BOWING | The act or art of managing the bow in playing on stringed instruments. | |
| PLECTRUM | A small instrument of ivory, wood, metal, or quill, used in playing upon the lyre and other stringed instruments. | |
| ORCHESTRA | The instruments employed by a full band, collectively; as, an orchestra of forty stringed instruments, with proper complement of wind instruments. | |
| STRING | The cord of a musical instrument, as of a piano, harp, or violin; specifically (pl.), the stringed instruments of an orchestra, in distinction ... | |