| Its pitch is high | 17 |
| Its natural scale is D | 22 |
| Its mouthpiece has a double reed | 32 |
| Its keys are usually silver-plated | 34 |
| Its French name means "high wood" | 43 |
| Its ''A'' tunes the orchestra | 45 |
| It's long, hard, and black | 30 |
| It's long and blown | 23 |
| It's derived from the French word "hautbois," meaning "high wood" | 89 |
| It's among the reeds | 24 |
| It was instrumental to Mitch Miller | 35 |
| It uses a double reed | 21 |
| It sounds similar to a harmoniphon | 34 |
| It needs reeds | 14 |
| It may be blown onstage | 23 |
| It is instrumental to Mitch Miller | 34 |
| It has finger holes | 19 |
| It has about a three-octave range | 33 |
| It has a three-octave range | 27 |
| It has a double-reed mouthpiece | 31 |
| It has a double reed | 20 |
| It has 20+ keys | 15 |
| Instrument you blow into | 24 |
| Instrument with ten keys | 24 |
| Instrument with keys | 20 |
| Instrument with a three-octave range | 36 |
| Instrument with a double-reed | 29 |
| Instrument with a conical bore | 30 |
| Instrument with a bell | 22 |
| Instrument usually made from African blackwood | 46 |
| Instrument used to set the pitch for an orchestra | 49 |
| Instrument that's difficult to tune | 39 |
| Instrument that's blown into | 32 |
| Instrument that tunes an orchestra | 34 |
| Instrument played with the mouth | 32 |
| Instrument on Mariah Carey's "Hero" | 49 |
| Instrument often made from grenadilla wood | 42 |
| Instrument often described as "mournful" | 50 |
| Instrument made from African blackwood, often | 45 |
| Instrument in the woodwind section | 34 |
| Instrument in some baroque pop tunes | 36 |
| Instrument in NATO's phonetic alphabet | 42 |
| Instrument in a pit | 19 |
| Instrument held with two hands | 30 |
| Instrument heard on "For All We Know" | 47 |
| Instrument heard in Sonny & Cher's "I Got You Babe" | 69 |
| Instrument for the "Swan Lake" theme | 46 |
| Instrument for someone who knows how to lip reeds | 49 |
| Instrument for Leon Goossens | 28 |
| Instrument for Johann Jacob Bach | 32 |
| Instrument called "an ill wind that nobody blows good" | 64 |
| Instrument also called a hautboy | 32 |
| Higher-pitched English horn | 27 |
| High-pitched aerophone | 22 |
| Heinz Holliger's instrument | 31 |
| Hecklephone's woodwind cousin | 33 |
| Hecklephone's relative | 26 |
| Heckelphone's relative | 26 |
| Heckelphone, e.g. | 17 |
| Heckelphone cousin | 18 |
| Hautboy, more commonly | 22 |
| Harmoniphon soundalike | 22 |
| Hand-held musical instrument | 28 |
| Gomberg's instrument | 24 |
| Featured instrument of "Peter and the Wolf" | 53 |
| Ensemble part, perhaps | 22 |
| Ensemble part | 13 |
| English horn's first cousin | 31 |
| English horn's close relative | 33 |
| Electronic navigation system | 28 |
| Duck's instrument in "Peter and the Wolf" | 55 |
| Double-reeded wind | 18 |
| Double-reeded instrument | 24 |
| Double-reed | 11 |
| Double reed woodwind | 20 |
| Deliverer of a high pitch | 25 |
| D'amore or da caccia | 24 |
| D is its natural scale | 22 |
| Crumhorn descendant | 19 |
| Cousin of the bassoon | 21 |
| Cousin of a heckelphone | 23 |
| Cousin of a cor anglais | 23 |
| Contrabassoon's little cousin | 33 |
| Contrabassoon | 13 |
| Conservatory wind | 17 |
| Conical reed | 12 |
| Concerto soloist, perhaps | 25 |
| Concerto instrument, perhaps | 28 |
| Concert woodwind | 16 |
| Commonly seen wood | 18 |
| Common woodwind | 15 |
| Clarinet's neighbor | 23 |
| Clarinet look-alike | 19 |
| Clarina's cousin | 20 |
| Chinese horn, e.g. | 18 |
| Certain wind instrument | 23 |
| Certain reed instrument | 23 |
| Certain chamber music instrument | 32 |
| Boston Pops instrument | 22 |
| Bombarde's cousin | 21 |