| Six-stringed instrument | 23 |
| Bowed musical instrument | 24 |
| Baroque chamber instrument | 26 |
| If you play it, take a bow | 26 |
| Baroque-orchestra instrument | 28 |
| Renaissance-fair instrument | 27 |
| Its players take a bow | 22 |
| It takes a bow at a recital | 27 |
| It has a low-arched bridge | 26 |
| Certain stringed instrument | 27 |
| Bass __ (stringed instrument) | 29 |
| Baroque bowed instrument | 24 |
| "Bass" instrument | 27 |
| It has four strings attached | 28 |
| Hindemith's instrument | 26 |
| Small cousin of the cello | 25 |
| Member of a string quartet | 26 |
| Duke Orsino's bride | 23 |
| World Series M.V.P.: 1987 | 25 |
| Small, stringed instrument | 26 |
| Sebastian's sister | 22 |
| Minnesota Twins player | 22 |
| John Cale's instrument | 26 |
| Instrument for John Cale | 24 |
| Fiddle's big brother | 24 |
| Dvorak's instrument | 23 |
| Chamber group instrument | 24 |
| Cello's smaller cousin | 26 |
| Beethoven's Fifth soloist | 29 |
| A Cy Young Award winner: 1988 | 29 |
| They always take a bow | 22 |
| Chamber music instruments | 25 |
| Cellos' little cousins | 26 |
| Didn't show respect for | 27 |
| Meter maids' quests | 23 |
| 1990 Depeche Mode album | 23 |
| Stringed instrument: Fr. | 24 |
| Feature of many R-rated films | 29 |
| Rating factor, perhaps | 22 |
| Problem re some TV programs | 27 |
| One criterion for an R rating | 29 |
| Extremely rough action | 22 |
| Meriting an R, perhaps | 22 |
| Like most M-rated video games | 29 |
| Girl in 'Peanuts' | 25 |
| Like Liz Taylor's eyes | 26 |
| Light spectrum extreme | 22 |
| Garden State's flower | 25 |
| Former flavor of Life Savers | 28 |
| Coldplay "___ Hill" | 29 |
| "Shrinking" flower | 28 |
| They're blue, in rhyme | 26 |
| "___ are blue" | 24 |
| 1986 Spacek/Kline flick | 23 |
| Transgress in a flowery way | 27 |
| Eau de toilette choice | 22 |
| Where to see a chin rest | 24 |
| String in a string quartet | 26 |
| Jack Benny's instrument | 27 |
| Isaac Stern's instrument | 28 |
| Henny Youngman's prop | 25 |
| Gypsy's instrument | 22 |
| Elman's instrument | 22 |
| Bowed orchestral instrument | 27 |
| Benny's instrument | 22 |
| "Cue the ___" | 23 |
| Stringed instrument accessory | 29 |
| A concert-master holds it | 25 |
| Symbols of faux sympathy | 24 |
| Kinder, gentler programming? | 28 |
| Player in the string section | 28 |
| Pinchas Zukerman, e.g. | 22 |
| Early stringed instruments | 26 |
| They had C-shaped sound holes | 29 |
| Six-stringed instruments | 24 |
| Instruments played with bows | 28 |
| Certain stringed instruments | 28 |
| Antique string instruments | 26 |
| 17th C. stringed instruments | 28 |
| Painkiller withdrawn in 2004 | 28 |
| Walker on a red carpet | 22 |
| User of a certain lounge | 24 |
| Type of service: Abbr. | 22 |
| Traveler in a motorcade | 23 |
| Limo occupant, perhaps | 22 |
| Certain lounge frequenter | 25 |
| Best of the best, briefly | 25 |
| Baller's lounge letters | 27 |
| All-access pass holder | 22 |
| Mean snake or Dodge hot rod | 27 |
| Horned asp or puff adder | 24 |
| Dodge with a V-10 engine | 24 |
| Car alarm named after a snake | 29 |
| Tool for a dueling snake? | 25 |
| Study of snake vision? | 22 |
| Some hollow-fanged snakes | 25 |
| It might get you backstage | 26 |
| Backstage access, maybe | 23 |
| They get the royal treatment | 28 |
| People in a certain lounge | 26 |