| 100% | STRINGTRIO | 10 | Violin, viola and cello |
| 83% | STRINGQUARTET | 13 | Cello, viola and two violins |
| 78% | STRINGTRIO | 10 | Composition for violin, viola and cello ... and what the starts of 17-, 29- and 47-Across comprise |
| 66% | STRINGS | 7 | Violins and violas |
| 65% | STRINGED | 8 | Like violins and cellos |
| 65% | STRS | 4 | Violins and violas: Abbr. |
| 58% | STRING | 6 | Instrument group that includes the cello and viola |
| 52% | MUTE | 4 | Muffler for a violin, viola or cello |
| 50% | STR | 3 | Orchestra section with violins and cellos, for short |
| 49% | VIOLA | 5 | String quartet instrument between violin and cello |
| 46% | ALTO | 4 | Like violas and English horns |
| 45% | INSTR | 5 | Violin or cello: Abbr. |
| 45% | TRIO | 4 | Piece for piano, flute and cello |
| 45% | DAVIS | 5 | Actresses Viola and Geena, trumpeter Miles |
| 45% | STRS | 4 | Cellos, violas, etc.: Abbr. |
| 44% | TWELFTH | 7 | __ Night, Shakespeare play with Viola and Olivia |
| 43% | SAX | 3 | ___ and violins (music pun) |
| 43% | THOMAS | 6 | ___ Jefferson, Founding Father and third President of the United States who was also a skilled player of the violin and the cello |
| 41% | AMATI | 5 | Rare and expensive Italian viola |
| 41% | IST | 3 | Ending for oboe and violin |
| 41% | STR | 3 | Viols and violas, in mus. |
| 40% | ORSINO | 6 | He loves Viola and her alter ego in Twelfth Night |
| 39% | ING | 3 | Mozart's Sonata ___ for Keyboard and Violin |
| 39% | IND | 3 | How Mozart and Beethoven wrote violin concertos |
| 39% | INE | 3 | Mozart's "Adagio ___ for Violin and Orchestra" |
| 39% | MAPLE | 5 | Makers of cabinets and violins use it |
| 38% | LOSTATSEA | 9 | *Like Viola and Sebastian's ship at the start of "Twelfth Night" |
| 38% | PALTROW | 7 | She played Viola De Lesseps and Pepper Potts |
| 38% | EGOTS | 5 | Award quartets for Viola Davis and John Legend |