| Guitar cousin |
Premier Sunday |
24 Aug 2025 |
| Instrument that's pear-shaped |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
15 Aug 2025 |
| Music producer's stolen money, I hear |
The Times Quick Cryptic |
04 Aug 2025 |
| Mandolin's kin |
Eugene Sheffer |
01 Aug 2025 |
| Instrument with a deep, rounded back |
New York Times |
18 Jul 2025 |
| Old instrument |
The Telegraph Quick |
07 Jul 2025 |
| Ancient plucked stringed instrument whose body is shaped like a halved pear (4) |
Mirror Quiz |
07 Jul 2025 |
| Musical instrument Rob heard |
|
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| Sitar, e.g. |
New York Times |
27 Jun 2025 |
| Old stringed instrument (4) |
Puzzler |
25 Jun 2025 |
| Early string instrument |
USA Today |
24 Jun 2025 |
| Stringed instrument with a deep rounded back (4) |
|
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| Pear-shaped instrument |
Commuter |
16 Jun 2025 |
| Instrument similar to the oud |
USA Today |
14 Jun 2025 |
| Mandolin kin |
Wall Street Journal |
14 Jun 2025 |
| Fine to abandon wind instrument for stringed one |
|
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| Bard's instrument |
Universal |
05 Jun 2025 |
| Mandolin cousin |
LA Times Daily |
01 Jun 2025 |
| Old stringed instrument |
Commuter |
31 May 2025 |
| Packing required for an instrument (4) |
|
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| Medieval minstrel's instrument (4) |
|
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| What is a young woman tuning in a 1662 Vermeer painting? (4) |
|
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| Ancient plucked stringed instrument whose body is shaped like a halved pear |
Mirror Quiz |
17 May 2025 |
| Mandolin's kin |
Eugene Sheffer |
09 May 2025 |
| Pear-shaped instrument |
LA Times Daily |
08 May 2025 |
| Medieval instmment Rob heard (4) |
|
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| Ancient guitar |
Mirror Quick |
04 May 2025 |
| Flutes surround another instrument |
Mirror Cryptic |
04 May 2025 |
| Minstrel's instrument (4) |
Puzzler |
03 May 2025 |
| String instrument with a hollow, half egg-shaped cavity (4) |
|
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| Musical instrument with between six and 13 strings, used from 14th to 17th centuries (4) |
|
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| Guitar-like instrument |
The Times Concise |
01 Apr 2025 |
| Old stringed instrument (4) |
Puzzler |
21 Mar 2025 |
| Guitar relative |
USA Today |
16 Mar 2025 |
| Trobadour's instrument |
|
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| One musical instrument or another not initially loud |
The Times Quick Cryptic |
11 Mar 2025 |
| Instrument used by learner driver of farm vehicle comes with strings attached (4) |
|
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| Ancient long-necked stringed instrument (4) |
|
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| Instrument similar to a sitar |
|
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| Medieval guitar |
Universal |
06 Feb 2025 |
| Strike top of one instrument and get another (4) |
|
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| Instrument depicted in Caravaggio's "The Musicians" |
New York Times |
15 Jan 2025 |
| 'Play on the ___, beholding the towns burn' (Henry VI, Part I) (4) |
The Guardian Quick |
08 Jan 2025 |
| Sounds like you need money for the instrument (4) |
|
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| Pear-shaped string instrument (anagram with "tule") |
|
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| A protective covering for the instrument (4) |
|
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| Medieval stringed instrument |
Commuter |
06 Jan 2025 |
| Bouzouki, e.g. |
|
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| Renaissance instrument |
The Telegraph Quick |
27 Dec 2024 |
| Ancient plucked stringed instrument whose body is shaped like a halved pear |
Mirror Quiz |
22 Dec 2024 |
| It provides a protective covering for the instrument (4) |
|
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| Old stringed instrument |
Commuter |
16 Dec 2024 |
| Mandolin's cousin |
Thomas Joseph |
04 Dec 2024 |
| Mandolin's kin |
Eugene Sheffer |
04 Dec 2024 |
| Knock top off glass instru ment (4) |
|
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| Sitar, technically |
New York Times |
15 Nov 2024 |
| Instrument topping another (4) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
14 Nov 2024 |
| How you let it be played once (4) |
|
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| Old stringed instrument (4) |
Puzzler |
29 Oct 2024 |
| Ancient plucked stringed instrument (4) |
|
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| Music maker among flutes |
|
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| Most of the flute can be played differently (4) |
|
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| One used to play it with a rubber sealing-ring (4) |
|
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| This fills the cracks in the instrument (4) |
|
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| Guitar-like instrument played by plucking |
The Times Specialist |
07 Oct 2024 |
| Old stringed instrunumt (4) |
|
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| Old chordophone |
|
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| Old stringed instrument |
The Telegraph Quick |
27 Sep 2024 |
| Elizabethan stringed instrument |
Mirror Tea Time |
15 Sep 2024 |
| Money, reportedly, for old instrument (4) |
|
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| Elizabethan stringed instrument |
Mirror Tea Time |
06 Sep 2024 |
| Plucked instrument with a pear-shaped body (4) |
|
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| It took some pluck to use it as a waterproof seal (4) |
|
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| An airtight seal on an old instrument (4) |
|
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| Flutes surround another instrument |
Mirror Cryptic |
01 Sep 2024 |
| Stringed instrument |
Mirror Quick |
01 Sep 2024 |
| Chordophone popular in medieval times |
New York Times |
10 Aug 2024 |
| Waterproof seal (4) |
|
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| Pear-shaped stringed instrument with a long neck (4) |
The Guardian Quick |
15 Jul 2024 |
| Old guitar-like instrument |
The Times Concise |
15 Jul 2024 |
| It becomesa different instrumen by adding "f" to the front |
|
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| It becomes a different instrument by adding "f" to the front |
USA Today |
08 Jul 2024 |
| Old stringed instrument (4) |
The Guardian Speedy |
07 Jul 2024 |
| Fluted interior of instrument (4) |
|
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| Ancient plucked stringed instrument whose body is shaped like a halved pear |
Mirror Quiz |
01 Jul 2024 |
| Instrument that becomes a different instrument when an "f" is added at the start |
|
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| Oud |
|
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| What is an Elizabethan pear-shaped stringed instrument? (4) |
|
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| Musical instrument found in sack, did you say? |
The Times Quick Cryptic |
11 Jun 2024 |
| Instrument often seen in baroque paintings |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
11 Jun 2024 |
| Hurdy-gurdy cousin |
|
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| Instrument spoils sound (4) |
|
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| Stringed instrument |
Mirror Quick |
21 May 2024 |
| Flutes surrounding another instrument |
Mirror Cryptic |
21 May 2024 |
| ...instrument that's reportedly part of robbery haul |
|
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| Minstrel's instrument? (4) |
Newsday |
12 May 2024 |
| Watertight seal for a stringed instrument in the old days (4) |
|
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| Mandolin's kin |
LA Times Mini |
06 May 2024 |
| Pear-shaped instrument of old |
Family Time |
05 May 2024 |
| Pear-shaped instrument |
Thomas Joseph |
29 Apr 2024 |
| Minstrel's pear-shaped instrument |
|
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| Guitar ancestor |
Newsday |
25 Apr 2024 |
| Ancient plucked stringed instrument whose body is shaped like a halved pear |
Mirror Quiz |
24 Apr 2024 |
| Renaissance instrument |
New York Times |
21 Apr 2024 |
| Instrument for a troubadour |
LA Times Daily |
14 Apr 2024 |
| Instrument once plucked with a quill |
LA Times Daily |
13 Apr 2024 |
| A chordophone |
|
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| Stringed instrument |
Mirror Quick |
26 Mar 2024 |
| Flutes around another instrument |
Mirror Cryptic |
26 Mar 2024 |
| Elizabethan stringed instrument |
Mirror Tea Time |
25 Mar 2024 |
| Instrument sounding like robbery proceeds (4) |
|
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| An instrument used for filling cracks (4) |
|
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| Making sound spoils instrument |
The Times Cryptic |
18 Mar 2024 |
| Stringed instrument |
Mirror Quick |
12 Mar 2024 |
| Flutes surrounding another instrument |
Mirror Cryptic |
12 Mar 2024 |
| Some convoluted piece for a musical instrument (4) |
|
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| Stringed instrument one would blow if loudly begun (4) |
|
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| Medieval music maker |
|
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| Prize announced for music producer (4) |
|
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| Old strummed instrument |
|
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| Spoils sound of instrument (4) |
|
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| Stringed instrument |
The Telegraph Quick |
11 Feb 2024 |
| Bard's instrument |
New York Times |
11 Feb 2024 |
| An instrument to fill cracks (4) |
|
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| Flutes concealing early guitar |
Mirror Cryptic |
28 Jan 2024 |
| Stringed instrument |
Mirror Quick |
28 Jan 2024 |
| Minstrel's instrument? |
The Guardian Quick |
25 Jan 2024 |
| A small flute-like musical instrument used by minstrels (4) |
|
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| Glass front missing - there are strings attached (4) |
|
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| Mandolin-like instrument (4) |
|
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| Stringed instrument with a large pear-shaped body (4) |
|
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| Minstrel's instrument |
Newsday |
07 Jan 2024 |
| Ancestor of a banjo |
Family Time |
07 Jan 2024 |
| Ancient plucked stringed instrument whose body is shaped like a sliced pear |
Mirror Quiz |
16 Dec 2023 |
| Musical instrument with a broken string in Holbein’s The Ambassadors |
The Times Specialist Sunday |
10 Dec 2023 |
| Traditional string instrument (4) |
|
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| Old pear-shaped stringed instrument |
Puzzler Backwords |
04 Dec 2023 |
| Reportedly spoils instrument |
The Telegraph Toughie |
16 Nov 2023 |
| Ren faire instrument |
USA Today |
14 Nov 2023 |
| Initially fine to abandon one instrument for another |
The Times Quick Cryptic |
13 Nov 2023 |
| Ye olde string instrument |
USA Today |
12 Nov 2023 |
| Guitar ancestor |
Newsday |
05 Nov 2023 |
| Ancient stringed instrument sometimes made from a turtle shell |
New York Times |
24 Oct 2023 |
| Minstrel's instrument |
Family Time |
08 Oct 2023 |
| Fine to abandon wind instrument and stringed instrument |
The Times Quick Cryptic |
06 Oct 2023 |
| Minstrel's stringed instrument |
Newsday |
08 Aug 2023 |
| Minstrel's stringed instrument |
The Telegraph Quick |
23 Jul 2023 |
| Medieval instrument with a pear-shaped body |
LA Times Daily |
03 Jul 2023 |
| Minstrel's strings |
Newsday |
25 Jun 2023 |
| Medieval instrument |
The Times Concise |
23 Jun 2023 |
| Guitar's kin |
Premier Sunday |
11 Jun 2023 |
| Mandolin's kin |
Eugene Sheffer |
27 May 2023 |
| Musical instrument Rob picked up |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
26 May 2023 |
| Stringed instrument with a pear-shaped body |
New York Times |
22 May 2023 |
| Mandolin's kin |
Eugene Sheffer |
16 May 2023 |
| When one instrument fails to start, get another |
The Guardian Cryptic |
12 May 2023 |
| Renaissance fair instrument |
LA Times Daily |
10 May 2023 |
| Ren faire instrument |
USA Today |
25 Apr 2023 |
| Renaissance instrument |
New York Times |
18 Apr 2023 |
| Mandolin's kin |
Eugene Sheffer |
13 Apr 2023 |
| Pastime for Leonardo |
Newsday |
25 Mar 2023 |
| Mandolin's kin |
Eugene Sheffer |
23 Mar 2023 |
| Early string instrument |
USA Today |
01 Mar 2023 |
| Mandolin's kin |
Eugene Sheffer |
28 Feb 2023 |
| Instrument originally played with a quill |
New York Times |
25 Feb 2023 |
| Mandolin cousin |
Newsday |
19 Feb 2023 |
| This was made to pluck hot stuff from mouth |
The Telegraph Toughie |
06 Dec 2022 |
| Stringed instrument |
The Times Concise |
28 Nov 2022 |
| Mandolin's cousin |
Thomas Joseph |
22 Sep 2022 |
| String instrument with a bent neck |
Universal |
17 Sep 2022 |
| Medieval guitar |
Universal |
11 Sep 2022 |
| Troubadour’s instrument |
Wall Street Journal |
06 Sep 2022 |
| Guitar ancestor |
Newsday |
04 Sep 2022 |
| Pear-shaped instrument |
Wall Street Journal |
15 Aug 2022 |
| Pear-shaped instrument |
New York Times |
31 Jul 2022 |
| Instrument that is plucked |
|
|
| Mandolin's kin |
Eugene Sheffer |
20 Jul 2022 |
| Instrument with a bent neck |
Universal |
04 Jun 2022 |
| Pear-shaped instrument |
Universal |
31 May 2022 |
| Stringed instrument |
Canadiana |
30 May 2022 |
| Gentileschi's 'Self-Portrait as a __ Player' |
The Washington Post |
30 Apr 2022 |
| Gentileschi's "Self-Portrait as a __ Player" |
LA Times Daily |
30 Apr 2022 |
| Renaissance Faire instrument |
Universal |
05 Apr 2022 |
| Troubadour's instrument |
Universal |
29 Mar 2022 |
| Guitar ancestor |
Newsday |
09 Mar 2022 |
| Ukulele forebear |
LA Times Daily |
26 Feb 2022 |
| Ukulele forebear |
The Washington Post |
26 Feb 2022 |
| String instrument spelled by removing the first letter from a woodwind instrument |
USA Today |
31 Jan 2022 |
| Instrument akin to an oud |
LA Times Daily |
15 Jan 2022 |
| Renaissance instrument |
USA Today |
28 Dec 2021 |
| Broadcast spoils instrument |
|
|
| Broadcast spoils instrument |
The Guardian Cryptic |
23 Nov 2021 |
| Stringed instrument spoils broadcast |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
29 Oct 2021 |
| Old instrument |
The Telegraph Quick |
19 Oct 2021 |
| Renaissance faire instrument |
USA Today |
10 Oct 2021 |
| Instrument that becomes another instrument if you add an F at the beginning |
USA Today |
15 Sep 2021 |
| Initial figure reduced by half for attractive instrument |
|
|
| Old instrument that thief makes off with reportedly? |
The Telegraph Toughie |
17 Aug 2021 |
| Guitar relative |
Premier Sunday |
15 Aug 2021 |
| Minstrel’s strings |
Wall Street Journal |
24 Jul 2021 |
| Pear-shaped string instrument |
|
|
| Serenade need, perhaps |
New York Times |
26 Jun 2021 |
| Mandolin cousin |
Newsday |
27 May 2021 |
| Minstrel's strings |
The Washington Post |
04 May 2021 |
| Minstrel's strings |
LA Times Daily |
04 May 2021 |
| Stringed instrument |
The Times Concise |
27 Apr 2021 |
| Mandolin's cousin |
Thomas Joseph |
27 Mar 2021 |
| Instrument that makes money for the listener |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
26 Mar 2021 |
| Guitar ancestor |
Newsday |
12 Feb 2021 |
| Instrument similar to the oud |
USA Today |
17 Jan 2021 |
| Renaissance instrument |
USA Today |
10 Jan 2021 |
| Pear-shaped instrument of yore |
Family Time |
03 Jan 2021 |
| Sitar's cousin |
Thomas Joseph |
29 Dec 2020 |
| Instrument in sack, you say? |
|
|
| Early string instrument |
USA Today |
17 Oct 2020 |
| Pear-shaped stringed instrument (anagram of "tule") |
|
|
| Mandolin relative |
Jonesin |
13 Oct 2020 |
| Troubadour’s instrument |
Wall Street Journal |
06 Oct 2020 |
| Guitar forerunner |
Universal |
28 Sep 2020 |
| Guitar relative |
The Washington Post Sunday |
30 Aug 2020 |
| Mandolin kin |
Premier Sunday |
30 Aug 2020 |
| Renaissance instrument |
Wall Street Journal |
18 Aug 2020 |
| Female leaves one instrument for another |
The Sun Two Speed |
12 Aug 2020 |
| Mandolin forerunner |
The Sun Two Speed |
12 Aug 2020 |
| Mandolin’s relative |
Wall Street Journal |
11 Aug 2020 |
| Stringed instrument: instrument's first plucked |
|
|
| One with a neck and a round body |
Wall Street Journal |
25 Jun 2020 |
| One made to pluck hot stuff from mouth? |
|
|
| Minstrel's instrument |
|
|
| Pear-shaped instrument |
Universal |
12 May 2020 |
| Guitar relative |
USA Today |
11 Apr 2020 |
| It becomes another instrument when "F" is added |
Universal |
10 Apr 2020 |
| Instrument with a bent neck |
New York Times |
21 Mar 2020 |
| Mandolin's kin |
Eugene Sheffer |
31 Dec 2019 |
| Pear-shaped, fretted instrument |
Family Time |
01 Dec 2019 |
| Troubadour's accompaniment |
New York Times |
22 Nov 2019 |
| Troubadour's accompaniment |
|
|
| Long-necked instrument |
Newsday |
10 Nov 2019 |
| Clay instrument with top missing |
|
|
| Minstrel's instrument |
Universal |
29 Oct 2019 |
| Ancient guitar-like instrument whose name is a homophone of "loot" |
|
|
| Elizabethan instrument |
Wall Street Journal |
09 Oct 2019 |
| Troubadour's instrument |
Jonesin |
08 Oct 2019 |
| Stringed instrument |
Canadiana |
07 Oct 2019 |
| Minstrel's strings |
USA Today |
22 Sep 2019 |
| Instrument -- and another, not loud |
The Telegraph Toughie |
18 Sep 2019 |
| Instrument robber makes off with we hear? |
The Sun Two Speed |
17 Sep 2019 |
| Mandolin ancestor |
The Sun Two Speed |
17 Sep 2019 |
| Troubadour's strings |
USA Today |
06 Sep 2019 |
| Old instrument reportedly stolen by robbers |
Irish Times Crosaire |
31 Aug 2019 |
| Mandolin's cousin |
USA Today |
27 Aug 2019 |
| Old musical instrument |
The Telegraph Quick |
21 Aug 2019 |
| Pear-shaped instrument |
Wall Street Journal |
27 Jul 2019 |
| Bard's instrument |
LA Times Daily |
14 Jul 2019 |
| Bard's instrument |
The Washington Post |
14 Jul 2019 |
| Minstrel's stringed instrument |
Newsday |
10 Jul 2019 |
| Renaissance instrument |
The Washington Post |
30 Jun 2019 |
| Renaissance instrument |
LA Times Daily |
30 Jun 2019 |
| Caravaggio's 'The ___ Player' |
New York Times |
22 Jun 2019 |
| Guitar ancestor |
USA Today |
30 May 2019 |
| Troubadour's strings |
Newsday |
19 May 2019 |
| Instrument broken over Hortensio's head in 'The Taming of the Shrew' |
New York Times |
11 May 2019 |
| Instrument family including the mandolin |
The Sun Two Speed |
27 Apr 2019 |
| Guitar's kin |
Premier Sunday |
10 Mar 2019 |
| Instrument for Alan-a-Dale in 'Robin Hood' |
The Washington Post Sunday |
17 Feb 2019 |
| Old instrument on both sides of luxury suite |
Irish Times Crosaire |
04 Feb 2019 |
| Instrument broken over Hortensio's head in "The Taming of the Shrew" |
|
|
| Minstrel's instrument |
|
|
| Pear-shaped instrument |
|
|
| Pear-shaped instrument |
|
|
| Guitar ancestor |
|
|
| Mandolin's cousin |
|
|
| Minstrel's strings |
|
|
| Troubadour's strings |
|
|
| Bard's instrument |
|
|
| Renaissance instrument |
|
|
| Elizabethan instrument |
|
|
| Caravaggio's "The ___ Player" |
|
|
| Mandolin kin |
Newsday |
02 Dec 2018 |
| Fellow quits one instrument for another |
|
|
| Minstrel's instrument |
|
|
| Fellow leaving instrument finds another |
|
|
| Old stringed instrument |
Universal |
03 Oct 2018 |
| Guitar predecessor |
Universal |
23 Sep 2018 |
| Balladeer's instrument |
Family Time |
17 Sep 2018 |
| Troubadour's strings |
The Washington Post |
06 Sep 2018 |
| Troubadour's strings |
LA Times Daily |
06 Sep 2018 |
| Vermeer's "Young Woman with a ___" |
The New Yorker |
03 Sep 2018 |
| Discussed money for old instrument |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
30 Aug 2018 |
| Mandolin's cousin |
Wall Street Journal |
28 Jul 2018 |
| Old pear-shaped instrument |
Universal |
25 Jul 2018 |
| Baroque instrument |
Universal |
26 Jun 2018 |
| Minstrel's instrument |
USA Today |
12 Jun 2018 |
| Guitar ancestor |
Universal |
31 May 2018 |
| Instrument with a bent neck |
USA Today |
23 May 2018 |
| Musical instrument |
The Telegraph Quick |
13 Apr 2018 |
| Renaissance stringed instrument |
New York Times |
26 Mar 2018 |
| 'Woman With a ___' (Vermeer painting) |
The Chronicle of Higher Education |
02 Mar 2018 |
| Pear-shaped string instrument |
|
|
| Instrument female dropped for another one |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
30 Jan 2018 |
| Minstrel's instrument |
|
|
| Mandolin ancestor |
Newsday |
19 Jan 2018 |
| Old pear-shaped instrument |
|
|
| Old stringed instrument |
|
|
| Troubadour's strings |
|
|
| Minstrel's strings |
|
|
| "Woman With a ___" (Vermeer painting) |
|
|
| Renaissance stringed instrument |
|
|
| Instrument with a bent neck |
|
|
| Minstrel's instrument |
|
|
| Baroque instrument |
|
|
| Guitar ancestor |
|
|
| Guitar predecessor |
|
|
| Mandolin's cousin |
|
|
| Plucked instrument |
The Times Concise |
29 Dec 2017 |
| Banjo ancestor |
Universal |
01 Oct 2017 |
| Minstrel's instrument |
The Washington Post |
19 Jul 2017 |
| Minstrel's instrument |
LA Times Daily |
19 Jul 2017 |
| Plucked instrument |
The Telegraph Quick |
15 Jul 2017 |
| Guitar forerunner |
Newsday |
29 Jun 2017 |
| Guitar relative of old |
Family Time |
19 Jun 2017 |
| Henry VIII played it |
Newsday |
17 Jun 2017 |
| Instrument has loudly suppressed another one |
|
|
| Instrument that's plucked or one that's blown, not loudly at first |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
11 Jun 2017 |
| Old instrument spoils broadcast |
|
|
| Ancient cousin of the guitar |
Universal |
07 May 2017 |
| Pear-shaped instrument |
Thomas Joseph |
04 May 2017 |
| Stringed instrument, with a neck and a rounded back, resembling a half-egg |
|
|
| Instrument with a pear-shaped body |
The Chronicle of Higher Education |
17 Feb 2017 |
| Face falling off glass instrument |
The Times Cryptic |
31 Jan 2017 |
| Face falling off glass instrument |
|
|
| Pear-shaped instrument of old |
Family Time |
30 Jan 2017 |
| Renaissance Faire instrument |
New York Times |
17 Jan 2017 |
| Instrument with a bent neck |
|
|
| Banjo ancestor |
|
|
| Ancient cousin of the guitar |
|
|
| Instrument with a pear-shaped body |
|
|
| Minstrel's instrument |
|
|
| Renaissance Faire instrument |
|
|
| Guitar of old |
Universal |
28 Dec 2016 |
| Sitar relative |
The Washington Post |
22 Dec 2016 |
| Guitar-like instrument |
The Telegraph Quick |
12 Nov 2016 |
| Elizabethan stringed instrument |
New York Times |
25 Oct 2016 |
| Instrument left with Victorian pick-up |
|
|
| Troubadour's stringed instrument |
New York Times |
10 Oct 2016 |
| Sound money for old instrument |
|
|
| Ill-gotten gains reportedly found in music store |
Irish Times Crosaire |
24 Aug 2016 |
| Troubadour's instrument |
Universal |
14 Aug 2016 |
| Troubadour's instrument |
The Washington Post |
22 Jul 2016 |
| Minstrels' accompaniment |
Wall Street Journal |
01 Jul 2016 |
| Troubadour's instrument |
USA Today |
21 Jun 2016 |
| Troubadour's accompaniment |
Wall Street Journal |
25 May 2016 |
| Woodwind is less loud instrument |
The Telegraph Toughie |
20 Apr 2016 |
| Baroque instrument |
USA Today |
09 Apr 2016 |
| Instrument for opening luggage and closing portmanteau with car key |
Irish Times Crosaire |
08 Apr 2016 |
| Pear-shaped stringed instrument |
New York Times |
28 Mar 2016 |
| Sitar, e.g |
Universal |
04 Mar 2016 |
| Instrument to force out another |
|
|
| Musical instrument left by pick up truck |
|
|
| Instrument to steal from the sound of it |
The Sun Two Speed |
30 Jan 2016 |
| Minstrel's instrument |
The Sun Two Speed |
30 Jan 2016 |
| Guitar of old |
|
|
| Elizabethan stringed instrument |
|
|
| Troubadour's stringed instrument |
|
|
| Troubadour's instrument |
|
|
| Troubadour's instrument |
|
|
| Intermittently loud, the instrument that minstrel played |
The Times Cryptic |
25 Nov 2015 |
| Guitar's ancestor |
Universal |
22 Sep 2015 |
| Instrument |
The Telegraph Quick |
11 Sep 2015 |
| Regularly flaunt electronic instrument |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
27 Aug 2015 |
| Minstrel's instrument |
Family Time |
23 Aug 2015 |
| Old instrument |
The Telegraph Quick |
12 May 2015 |
| Elizabethan strings |
LA Times Daily |
07 May 2015 |
| Instrument spoils broadcast |
|
|
| Troubadour's instrument |
Eugene Sheffer |
24 Mar 2015 |
| Large mass removed from noiseless instrument |
|
|
| Salvation Army would have this instrument for greeting |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
13 Feb 2015 |
| Renaissance instrument |
|
|
| Ancient instrument |
|
|
| Mandolin kin |
|
|
| Guitar forerunner |
|
|
| Elizabethan strings |
|
|
| Guitar's ancestor |
|
|
| Learner by pick-up |
|
|
| Renaissance instrument |
|
|
| Minstrel's instrument |
|
|
| Minstrel's instrument |
|
|
| Pear-shaped classical guitar |
|
|
| Guitar relative |
|
|
| Minstrel's strings |
|
|
| Renaissance music staple |
|
|
| Guitar's older relative |
|
|
| Fretted instrument |
|
|
| Pear-shaped stringed instrument |
|
|
| Guitar relative |
|
|
| Mandolin cousin |
|
|
| Plucked Renaissance instrument |
|
|
| Balladeer's accessory |
|
|
| Troubadour's prop |
|
|
| Mandolin kin |
|
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| Sitar, e.g. |
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| Ancestor of a banjo |
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| Stringed instrument for a madrigal |
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| Troubadour's instrument |
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| Guitar's ancestor |
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| Stradivari specialty |
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| Mandolin's ancestor |
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| Guitar's kin |
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| Troubadour's instrument |
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| Pear-shaped instrument of old |
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| Serenade accompaniment |
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| Minstrel's instrument |
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| Mandolin kin |
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| Minstrel's instrument, perhaps |
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| Troubadour's instrument |
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| Mandolin kin |
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| Minstrel's strings |
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| Serenade accompaniment |
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| Bard's instrument |
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| Troubadour's instrument |
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| Troubadour's instrument |
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| Theorbo's cousin |
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| Ancient guitar cousin |
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| Two Vivaldi concertos feature it |
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| Old strings |
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| Mandolin cousin of old |
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| Pear-shaped stringed instrument |
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| Mandolin kin |
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| Old strings |
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| Subject of a lesson for Katharina in "The Taming of the Shrew" |
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| Instrument for a minstrel |
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| Mandolin relative |
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| Madrigalist's accompaniment |
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| Long-necked instrument |
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| Balalaika or bouzouki |
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| One with a long neck and a rounded body |
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| Guitar granddaddy |
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| Cousin of a mandolin |
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| Mandolin kin |
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| Mandolin's forerunner |
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| Mandolin relative |
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| Madrigalist's accompaniment |
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| It's featured in two Vivaldi concertos |
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| Guitar forerunner |
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| Guitar kin |
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| Minstrel's instrument |
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| Mandolin cousin |
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| Vermeer's "Woman With a ___" |
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| Renaissance instrument |
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| Minstrel's strings |
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| Ancient relative of the guitar |
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| Instrument with a pear-shaped body |
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| Old instrument that's strummed |
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| Instrument with a pear-shaped body |
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| Guitar ancestor |
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| Renaissance instrument |
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| Ancestor of a banjo |
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| Fretted instrument |
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| Mandolin's cousin |
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| Ancient stringed instrument |
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| Instrument for 19-Across |
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| Guitar ancestor |
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| Vermeer's "Woman With a ___" |
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| Renaissance instrument |
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| Minstrel's strings |
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| Mandolin's ancestor |
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| Relative of a mandolin |
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| Guitar ancestor |
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| Balladeer's instrument of yore |
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| Caravaggio's "The ___ Player" |
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| Bard's instrument |
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| Guitar granddaddy |
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| Strings for a minstrel |
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| Elizabethan instrument |
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| Troubadour accompanier |
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| Minstrel's instrument |
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| Pear-shaped instrument |
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| Troubadour's instrument |
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| Boy's instrument in a Hals painting |
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| Instrument that's plucked |
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| Old strings |
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| It has strings attached |
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| Mandolin kin |
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| String instrument |
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| Guitar's kin |
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| Renaissance instrument |
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| Instrument for Julian Bream |
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| Bouzouki or mandola |
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| Guitar forerunner |
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| Pear-shaped instrument |
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| Pipe sealant |
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| Old instrument that's strummed |
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| Old balladeer's instrument |
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| It has a low bridge |
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| Cousin of a mandolin |
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| Mandolin's cousin |
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| Mandolin cousin |
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| Accompaniment for a madrigal |
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| Bouzouki or mandola |
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| Instrument for Julian Bream |
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| Stringed instrument |
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| Tamboura's cousin |
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| Sitar, e.g. |
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| Instrument with a long neck |
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| Guitar forerunner |
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| Stringed instrument |
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| Theorbo's cousin |
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| Julian Bream instrument |
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| Pear-shaped instrument |
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| Renaissance-fair instrument |
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| Popular Renaissance instrument |
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| Renaissance instrument |
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| Guitar's cousin |
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| Madrigal accompaniment, perhaps |
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| Shakespearean instrument |
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| Balladeer's accessory |
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| Mandolin relative |
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| Mandolin cousin |
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| Pipe sealant |
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| Balladeer's aid |
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| Minstrel's accompaniment |
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| Pear-shaped instrument |
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| Mandolin's kin |
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| Mandolin's kin |
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| Julian Bream's instrument |
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| Renaissance musicmaker |
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| Guitar forerunner |
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| Guitar's cousin |
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| Instrument of Elizabethan ballads |
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| Instrument featured in some Shakespeare plays |
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| Long-necked instrument |
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| Mandolin's forerunner |
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| Mandolin ancestor |
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| Plucked instrument |
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| It has a long neck and a pear-shaped body |
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| Minstrel's music maker |
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| Honi's suitor in "Hägar the Horrible" |
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| Troubadour's instrument |
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| Long-necked instrument |
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| Sitar kin |
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| Sitar, e.g. |
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| Serenade accompaniment |
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| Balladeer's instrument |
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| Guitar-like stringed instrument |
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| Guitar cousin |
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| Madrigal accompaniment |
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| Medieval instrument |
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| Pear-shaped instrument |
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| String instrument |
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| Pipe fitter's compound |
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| Pear-shaped instrument |
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| Guitarlike instrument |
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| Balalaika relative |
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| Minstrel s strings |
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| Bouzouki, for example |
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| Mandolin's kin |
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| Pear-shaped instrument |
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| Troubador's strings |
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| Guitar forerunner |
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| Minstrel's instrument, perhaps |
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| Plucker's instrument |
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| Elizabethan instrument |
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| Guitar relative |
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| Guitar relative |
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| Mandolin's ancestor |
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| Instrument shaped like a 69-Across |
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| Stringed instrument of old |
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| Mandolin's kin |
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| "Greensleeves" accompaniment |
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| Cousin of the banjo |
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| Long-necked instrument |
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| Medieval guitar |
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| Stringed instrument |
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| Cousin of a bandore |
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| Fretted instrument |
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| Guitar predecessor |
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| Old stringed instrument |
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| Stringed instrument |
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| Mandolin's kin |
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| Minstrel's accompaniment |
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| Strings for pluckers |
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| Guitar's ancestor |
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| Accompaniment for a pavane |
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| Baroque instrument |
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| Mandolin's cousin |
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| Guitarlike instrument |
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| Oud or theorbo |
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| Seal, as pipe joints |
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| Theorbo |
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| Seal a pipe joint |
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| Guitar predecessor |
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| Stringed instrument |
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| Minstrel's companion |
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| Guitar's cousin |
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| Troubadour's tote |
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| Guitar's kin |
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| Paving tool |
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| Old stringed instrument |
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| Pandurina or citole |
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| Mandolin's kin |
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| John Dowland's instrument |
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| Guitar's cousin of yore |
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| Theorbo relative |
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| What a theorbo was |
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| Minstrel's instrument |
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| Pipe cement |
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| Theorbo's kin |
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| Pandurina |
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| Plumber's sealing agent |
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| Musical instrument |
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| Citole |
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| Pandurina, for one |
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| Guitar, old style |
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| Balalaika's relative |
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| Guitar's predecessor |
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| Old instrument |
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| Instrument |
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| Music maker |
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| Bard's instrument |
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| Early instrument |
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| Ancestor of the mandolin. |
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| Oriental musical instrument. |
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| Oriental instrument. |
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| Antecedent of the guitar. |
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| Renaissance fair instrument |
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| Minstrel's instrument |
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| Guitar's cousin. |
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| Long-necked instrument. |
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| String instrument. |
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| Relative of the guitar. |
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| Relative of the mandolin. |
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| Packing ring. |
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| Old instrument. |
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| Musical instrument. |
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| Guitar's ancestor. |
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| Stringed instrument. |
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| Sitar's cousin. |
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| Guitar's relative. |
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| Plectrum instrument. |
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| Old stringed instrument. |
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| Troubadour instrument. |
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| Predecessor of the guitar. |
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| A wandering minstrel's instrument. |
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| Guitar's predecessor. |
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| Old-time guitar. |
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| Biblical instrument. |
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| Ancient instrument. |
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| Mandolin's predecessor. |
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| Early form of mandolin. |
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| Forerunner of the mandolin. |
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| Clay cement. |
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| "___ Song." |
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| Rubber ring for sealing fruit jars. |
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| Instrument of Oriental origin. |
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| Pear-shaped instrument. |
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| Early guitar. |
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| Guitar's grandsire. |
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| Minstrel's instrument. |
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| Predecessor of the mandolin. |
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| Old-fashioned instrument. |
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| Fruit-jar ring. |
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