Word "TIMPANI" Definitions:


Part of Speech:
Noun
Definition:
a large hemispherical brass or copper percussion instrument with a drumhead that can be tuned by adjusting the tension on it
Synonyms:
kettle, kettledrum, tympani, tympanum

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Big orchestra drums Commuter 05 Sep 2025
Timothy gets contagious fear mostly from drums (7)
Kitchen features in a quiet university uprising The Telegraph Toughie 16 Jul 2025
Kettledrums; I'm inapt (anag.) The Telegraph Quick 12 Jul 2025
Orchestral kettledrums(7)
When Tim and I get to criticise, we get the drum (7)
Kettle drums (MAIN PIT anagram) (7)
They won't play if you don't hit them (7)
Instruments of terror briefly employed by regressive university
Paint I'm smearing on the drums (7) Puzzler Cryptic 12 Jun 2025
One Frenchman threw paint around drums Mirror Cryptic 23 May 2025
Kettle drums Mirror Quick 23 May 2025
Kettle drums used in an orchestra (7)
Main pit reorganised for drums (7) Puzzler Cryptic 25 Apr 2025
Pest getting into beat, beginning to imitate drums The Telegraph Cryptic 23 Apr 2025
Paint spilt around middle of Jim's kettledrums (7)
Main pit reorganised for drums (7) Puzzler Cryptic 08 Mar 2025
Struck instruments (7) The Guardian Quick 17 Feb 2025
Part of victim panic-stricken: they're beaten with sticks (7) The Guardian Cryptic 14 Feb 2025
Main pit sort of percussion (7)
A set of kettledrums, two or more in number (7)
Pity man playing the kettledrums (7)
Nervous briefly guarding container for 7 items?
Curry maybe initially packed as needed in drums The Telegraph Toughie 01 Jan 2025
A set of kettledrums (7)
Percussion section instruments Wall Street Journal 16 Nov 2024
Musical percussion instruments also called kettledrums Mirror Quiz 06 Nov 2024
Drums one politician ain't rolling (7)
Kettledrums, originally Indian mridangams in inappropriate revolution (7)
Kettledrums a€“ I'm inapt (anag.) (7)
MP ain't one to be upset by the drums (7)
Young devil comes in to beat one of the drums (7)
Skinheads about? I'm panicking a bit (7)
Paint I'm mixing in drums (7) Puzzler Cryptic 05 Jul 2024
What I'm panicking about is holding the kettledrums (7)
I'm covered in paint playing drums The Times Quick Cryptic 13 Jun 2024
Drums time - annoying child has a new one The Times Quick Cryptic 07 Jun 2024
Percussion instruments curtailed tempo with a lot of agitation
Big drums
Orchestral drums (I, not Y) The Times Concise 02 May 2024
Ain't wrong to hold the little devil, but they take some beating (7)
I tip man off about percussion (7)
Pitched percussion instrument also known as kettledrums (7)
But I'm panicking, carrying bangers (7)
About one thousand different paint drums (7)
Drums fellow viewed with endless alarm (7)
After short time, quietly an open introduction to a set of kettledrums (7)
Kettledrums extracted from main pit (7)
Kettledrums extracted from main pit(7)
Drums for tango with devil, in a pirouette (7)
Instruments not fit to hold a note when set up (7)
Kettledrums – I'm inapt (anag.) The Guardian Quick 14 Nov 2023
Daughter fleeing as mouse circles vessel in part of kitchen The Times Cryptic 13 Oct 2023
Drums of paint I'm mixing The Times Cryptic 31 Jul 2023
A lot of alarm with time running short over getting drums The Times Cryptic 03 Jul 2023
Paint I'm getting mixed in drums The Telegraph Cryptic 01 Jun 2023
Drums start, I'm panicking within The Telegraph Toughie 12 Apr 2023
Time one's item for cooking -- I should get things beaten The Telegraph Cryptic 17 Feb 2023
Drum prominently heard in "2001: A Space Odyssey" Universal 16 Dec 2022
Some elements of orchestra may be nervous, almost taking pot The Telegraph Cryptic 26 Aug 2022
Section of orchestra in main pit, possibly The Times Cryptic 10 Aug 2022
Setter's overcome by joint pain, played drums
Kettledrums The Guardian Quick 27 May 2022
Orchestral kettledrums Universal 26 Nov 2021
Victim panics a little, gets beaten by sticks, makes rolling sound
This writer's probing unfit revolutionary instruments
Gunshot providers in “Peter and the Wolf” Wall Street Journal 05 Aug 2021
This setter is breaking unsuitable lifting instrument
Drums tied on top, I'm carrying water in Rajasthan
Part of orchestra's time cut short, non-stop panic follows The Telegraph Toughie 10 Mar 2021
Kettledrums ain't playing around mischievous fellow
They're hit in a mine on the way up, Mike admitted
Boy's water in Delhi drums
They're beaten during protest — I'm panicking
Monkey stopping to beat one set of drums
Orchestral drums Premier Sunday 30 Aug 2020
Admit I'm panic-stricken, carrying instruments
They get beaten up in a mine skirting motorway
Paint I'm mixing for instruments
Drums, monkey stopping to beat one
Independent member ain't worried about ones that are beaten 
Members of the orchestra in main pit playing Irish Times Crosaire 07 Sep 2019
God embraced by mostly fearful orchestra members The Telegraph Cryptic 07 Apr 2019
Drums upset sleep? Endlessly nervous about that
Drums upset sleep? Endlessly nervous about that
7   They are beaten — boy's in dread almost
Percussion instruments making tiny boy take fright almost
Endlessly fearful about slate percussion instrument
A few in heat: I'm panicking they'll be beaten
Rubbish inside most of chicken drumsticks to go on these?
Those in the pit not entirely fearful about God
Victim panics, concealing drums The Telegraph Cryptic 14 Feb 2018
Paint I'm mixing in drums The Sun Two Speed 14 Feb 2018
Set of kettledrums The Sun Two Speed 14 Feb 2018
Makers of thumping noise may bring endless fear to tiny boy
Things beaten in defeat, I'm panicking!
Source of the biggest hits of the Proms? The Telegraph Cryptic 14 Sep 2017
Percussion instrument LA Times Daily 09 Sep 2017
Percussion instrument The Washington Post 09 Sep 2017
Prankster gets seduced by volunteers having note, becomes plaything
Drums up all fashionable advice primarily for top managers in Gulf Irish Times Crosaire 17 Jun 2017
Back-of-orchestra instruments Newsday 08 Jun 2017
Kettledrums (I, not Y) The Times Concise 05 May 2017
Kettledrums Eugene Sheffer 18 Apr 2017
Percussion instrument
They represent the hunters in 'Peter and the Wolf' The Washington Post 25 Dec 2016
Kettledrums The Guardian Quick 24 Dec 2016
Certain drum set Newsday 09 Dec 2016
They're set back in a pit, keeping tempo essentially
Drums of paint need mixing – I'm involved
Retiring briefly to consume roast in part of kitchen? The Times Cryptic 26 Feb 2016
Kettledrums Universal 18 Jan 2016
Kettledrums
A good deal alarmed about hollow drums The Telegraph Toughie 10 Sep 2015
Man's criticism on one percussion set
Members of the orchestra in a top position, it looks the other way? The Times Cryptic 21 Aug 2015
Not entirely quiet, about to criticise percussion
They produce rolls, little rascal tucking into brown one The Times Cryptic 22 Jul 2015
Kitchen implements turned up in a hole, over one thousand The Times Cryptic 10 Mar 2015
Independent member ain't bothered outside
Symphonic set
Percussion instruments
Kettledrums
Percussion set
Drums in concerts
Kettledrums
The hunters in "Peter and the Wolf"
Kettledrums
Percussionist's set
Orchestral kettledrums
Tunable drums
Set of large percussion instruments
Kettledrums
Hunters' representation in "Peter and the Wolf"
Drum set
Kettledrums
Band set
Kettledrums
Percussionist's set
Literally, "drums," in Italian
Kettledrums
Set of kettledrums
Kettledrums
Kettledrums.
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