Instruments

Most are 4 or 7 letters long. The first letters that occur most often are B, C, S. Each answer links to its own page with more clues.

This list has 39 answers, from 4 to 10 letters; 59% of them have five to seven. In crosswords the category is usually signalled by a short opener such as “early”, so the clue narrows the family before the crossings do. The members that catch solvers out are the rarer ones: ARCHLUTE (Baroque bass instrument), SAXHORN (Buglelike brass instrument) and SAMISEN (Japanese string instrument).

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