| Instrument popular in the 1600s | 31 |
| Baroque stringed instrument | 27 |
| Six-stringed instrument | 23 |
| Cello relative | 14 |
| Fretted fiddle | 14 |
| Cello's cousin | 18 |
| Bowed musical instrument | 24 |
| Baroque chamber instrument | 26 |
| String section member | 21 |
| Six-stringed instrument, usually | 32 |
| Six-stringed fiddle | 19 |
| Cello precursor | 15 |
| 16th-century stringed instrument | 32 |
| Strings member | 14 |
| It took a bow | 13 |
| If you play it, take a bow | 26 |
| Fat fiddle | 10 |
| Bass __ | 7 |
| Baroque-orchestra instrument | 28 |
| Stringed nstrument | 18 |
| Renaissance-fair instrument | 27 |
| Renaissance Festival instrument | 31 |
| Rebec's kin | 15 |
| Orchestral string | 17 |
| Old orchestral stringed instrument | 34 |
| Old orchestral string | 21 |
| Its players take a bow | 22 |
| Its players bow | 15 |
| It takes a bow at a recital | 27 |
| It has a low-arched bridge | 26 |
| Instrument popular in Shakespeare's day | 43 |
| Gudok, e.g. | 11 |
| Fiddle's family | 19 |
| Fat fiddle forerunner | 21 |
| Double bass | 11 |
| Common stringed instrument of the past | 38 |
| Certain stringed instrument | 27 |
| Cello's kin | 15 |
| Bass _____ | 10 |
| Bass ___ (stringed instrument) | 30 |
| Bass __ (stringed instrument) | 29 |
| Baroque bowed instrument | 24 |
| 16th-century bowed stringed instrument | 38 |
| "The ___, the violet, and the vine": Poe | 50 |
| "Bass" instrument | 27 |
| It's tucked under the chin | 30 |
| "Twelfth Night" twin | 30 |
| It has four strings attached | 28 |
| Hindemith's instrument | 26 |
| Cello kin | 9 |
| Cello cousin | 12 |
| ''Twelfth Night'' heroine | 41 |
| Small cousin of the cello | 25 |
| Quartet part | 12 |
| Member of a string quartet | 26 |
| Gasparo da Salo's instrument | 32 |
| Four-stringed orchestral instrument | 35 |
| Duke Orsino's bride | 23 |
| Cesario's alter ego in "Twelfth Night" | 52 |
| A symphonic string | 18 |
| "Twelfth Night" role | 30 |
| World Series M.V.P.: 1987 | 25 |
| Walter Trampler's instrument | 32 |
| Type of pansy | 13 |
| Stringed instrument (and butt of many musician jokes) | 53 |
| String in a pit | 15 |
| Something that might be tucked under the chin | 45 |
| Solo part in Benjamin Britten's "Lachrymae" | 57 |
| Solo in Berlioz's "Harold in Italy" | 49 |
| Small, stringed instrument | 26 |
| Sebastian's twin, in "Twelfth Night" | 50 |
| Sebastian's twin | 20 |
| Sebastian's sister | 22 |
| One of two in Mozart's string quintets | 42 |
| Music for it is written largely in alto clef | 44 |
| Minnesota Twins player | 22 |
| Member of the chordophone family | 32 |
| Lover of Orsino in "Twelfth Night" | 44 |
| Lionel Tertis's instrument | 30 |
| Lawrence Power's instrument | 31 |
| John Cale's instrument | 26 |
| It's bowed | 14 |
| It takes a bow in an orchestra | 30 |
| Instrument in Schubert's "Trout Quintet" | 54 |
| Instrument heard in "Dust in the Wind" | 48 |
| Instrument for John Cale | 24 |
| Instrument featured in Berlioz's "Harold in Italy" | 64 |
| Instrument associated with the alto clef | 40 |
| Girl in "Twelfth Night" | 33 |
| Gasparo da Salò's instrument | 39 |
| Fiddle's big brother | 24 |
| Dvorak's instrument | 23 |
| Double bass's smaller cousin | 32 |
| Cousin of a cello | 17 |
| Chamber instrument | 18 |
| Chamber group instrument | 24 |
| Cello's smaller cousin | 26 |
| Beethoven's Fifth soloist | 29 |
| A Cy Young Award winner: 1988 | 29 |
| "Twelfth Night" protagonist | 37 |