| 2026-02-07 | Instrument depicted in paintings by Hals and Caravaggio |
| 2025-07-18 | Instrument with a deep, rounded back |
| 2025-06-27 | Sitar, e.g. |
| 2025-01-15 | Instrument depicted in Caravaggio's "The Musicians" |
| 2024-11-15 | Sitar, technically |
| 2024-08-10 | Chordophone popular in medieval times |
| 2024-04-21 | Renaissance instrument |
| 2024-02-11 | Bard's instrument |
| 2023-10-24 | Ancient stringed instrument sometimes made from a turtle shell |
| 2023-05-22 | Stringed instrument with a pear-shaped body |
| 2023-04-18 | Renaissance instrument |
| 2023-02-25 | Instrument originally played with a quill |
| 2022-07-31 | Pear-shaped instrument |
| 2021-06-26 | Serenade need, perhaps |
| 2020-03-21 | Instrument with a bent neck |
| 2019-11-22 | Troubadour's accompaniment |
| 2019-06-22 | Caravaggio's "The ___ Player" |
| 2019-05-11 | Instrument broken over Hortensio's head in "The Taming of the Shrew" |
| 2018-03-26 | Renaissance stringed instrument |
| 2017-01-17 | Renaissance Faire instrument |
| 2017-01-13 | Instrument with a bent neck |
| 2016-10-25 | Elizabethan stringed instrument |
| 2016-10-10 | Troubadour's stringed instrument |
| 2016-03-28 | Pear-shaped stringed instrument |
| 2014-11-04 | Minstrel's instrument |
| 2013-02-18 | Stringed instrument for a madrigal |
| 2011-07-26 | Troubadour's instrument |
| 2011-03-24 | Subject of a lesson for Katharina in "The Taming of the Shrew" |
| 2010-04-03 | One with a long neck and a rounded body |
| 2009-08-18 | Vermeer's "Woman With a ___" |
| 2009-05-18 | Minstrel's instrument |
| 2009-03-13 | It's featured in two Vivaldi concertos |
| 2008-12-07 | Ancestor of a banjo |
| 2008-07-02 | Renaissance instrument |
| 2007-06-11 | Instrument that's plucked |
| 2007-05-08 | Relative of a mandolin |
| 2006-12-12 | Cousin of a mandolin |
| 2006-06-19 | Old balladeer's instrument |
| 2006-03-23 | It has a low bridge |
| 2006-02-13 | Old instrument that's strummed |
| 2006-01-24 | Accompaniment for a madrigal |
| 2006-01-05 | It has strings attached |
| 2005-02-11 | Vermeer's "Woman With a ___" |
| 2004-11-03 | Cousin of a mandolin |
| 2004-10-24 | Balladeer's aid |
| 2003-08-24 | Guitar forerunner |
| 2003-07-27 | Renaissance musicmaker |
| 2003-04-22 | Minstrel's instrument |
| 2002-08-13 | Renaissance instrument |
| 2002-08-08 | Guitar forerunner |
| 2001-11-12 | Pear-shaped instrument |
| 2001-10-28 | Vermeer's "Woman With a ___" |
| 2001-09-19 | String instrument |
| 2001-05-17 | Madrigal accompaniment |
| 1999-11-07 | Relative of a mandolin |
| 1998-11-20 | Cousin of the banjo |
| 1998-11-11 | Long-necked instrument |
| 1998-10-21 | Guitar relative |
| 1998-03-18 | Pear-shaped instrument |
| 1998-01-14 | Instrument shaped like a 69-Across |
| 1998-01-12 | Mandolin's ancestor |
| 1997-08-01 | Fretted instrument |
| 1997-06-08 | Cousin of a bandore |
| 1997-02-13 | Pear-shaped instrument |
| 1996-11-30 | Guitar relative |
| 1996-05-06 | Minstrel's accompaniment |
| 1996-03-22 | Renaissance instrument |
| 1995-03-21 | Guitar's ancestor |
| 1994-03-27 | Accompaniment for a pavane |
| 1994-03-12 | Baroque instrument |
| 1994-01-13 | Guitar's ancestor |