Answer: LUTE
LUTE is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 135 times.
Referring Clues:
- Guitar relative
 - Fretted instrument
 - Pear-shaped instrument
 - Cousin of a bandore
 - Mandolin's ancestor
 - Instrument shaped like a 69-Across
 - Long-necked instrument
 - Cousin of the banjo
 - Relative of a mandolin
 - Madrigal accompaniment
 - Vermeer's "Woman With a ___"
 - String instrument
 - Guitar forerunner
 - Renaissance instrument
 - Mandolin kin
 - Minstrel's instrument
 - Renaissance musicmaker
 - Cousin of a mandolin
 - Balladeer's aid
 - Old instrument that's strummed
 - It has strings attached
 - Accompaniment for a madrigal
 - Old balladeer's instrument
 - It has a low bridge
 - Instrument that's plucked
 - Ancestor of a banjo
 - It's featured in two Vivaldi concertos
 - Troubadour's instrument
 - Instrument of Elizabethan ballads
 - Instrument featured in some Shakespeare plays
 - Mandolin relative
 - Minstrel's accompaniment
 - Instrument with a long neck
 - Balladeer's instrument of yore
 - Mandolin's cousin
 - Madrigalist's accompaniment
 - Theorbo's cousin
 - Sitar, e.g.
 - Tamboura's cousin
 - Bard's instrument
 - Guitar granddaddy
 - Strings for a minstrel
 - Guitar ancestor
 - Instrument with a pear-shaped body
 - Bouzouki or mandola
 - Instrument for Julian Bream
 - Stringed instrument
 - Troubadour accompanier
 - Ancient stringed instrument
 - Minstrel's strings
 - Mandolin cousin
 - Baroque instrument
 - Instrument for 19-Across
 - Elizabethan instrument
 - Boy's instrument in a Hals painting
 - Guitar's kin
 - Madrigal accompaniment, perhaps
 - One with a long neck and a rounded body
 - Mandolin's forerunner
 - Balalaika or bouzouki
 - Instrument for a minstrel
 - Old strings
 - Subject of a lesson for Katharina in "The Taming of the Shrew"
 - Pear-shaped stringed instrument
 - Sitar kin
 - Ancient guitar cousin
 - Troubador prop
 - Mandolin cousin of old
 - Two Vivaldi concertos feature it
 - Guitar of old
 - Medieval instrument
 - Sitar's cousin
 - Mandolin's kin
 - Guitar's ancestor
 - Troubadour's accompaniment
 - Troubadour's prop
 - Guitar kin
 - Serenade accompaniment
 - Pear-shaped instrument of old
 - Minstrel's instrument, perhaps
 - Zither's kin
 - Stringed instrument for a madrigal
 - Renaissance music staple
 - Plucked Renaissance instrument
 - Balladeer's accessory
 - Pipe sealant
 - Relative of a zither
 - Stradivari specialty
 - Troubador's instrument
 - Guitar's older relative
 - Elizabethan strings
 - Musical instrument
 - Madrigal's instrument
 - Shakespearean instrument
 - Medieval guitar
 - Troubadour's stringed instrument
 - Elizabethan stringed instrument
 - Instrument with a bent neck
 - Renaissance Faire instrument
 - Ancient cousin of the guitar
 - Henry VIII played it
 - Banjo ancestor
 - Accompaniment for a pavane
 - Mandolin ancestor
 - Renaissance stringed instrument
 - Old stringed instrument
 - Old pear-shaped instrument
 - Troubadour's strings
 - Guitar predecessor
 - Instrument broken over Hortensio's head in "The Taming of the Shrew"
 - Caravaggio's "The ___ Player"
 - Minstrel's stringed instrument
 - Pear shape string instrument
 - Clay waterproof seal
 - It becomes another instrument when "F" is added
 - Serenade need, perhaps
 - Instrument that becomes another instrument if you add an F at the beginning
 - Instrument akin to an oud
 - String instrument spelled by removing the first letter from a woodwind instrument
 - Ukulele forebear
 - Gentileschi's "Self-Portrait as a ___ Player"
 - Instrument originally played with a quill
 - Early string instrument
 - Ren faire instrument
 - Renaissance fair instrument
 - Stringed instrument with a pear-shaped body
 - Medieval instrument with a pear-shaped body
 - Ancient stringed instrument sometimes made from a turtle shell
 - Instrument once plucked with a quill
 - Instrument for a troubadour
 - It becomes a different instrument by adding "f" to the front
 - Chordophone popular in medieval times
 - Sitar, technically
 - Instrument depicted in Caravaggio's "The Musicians"
 - Instrument with a deep, rounded back
 
Last Seen In:
- New York Times - July 18, 2025
 - New York Times - June 27, 2025
 - USA Today - June 24, 2025
 - LA Times - June 01, 2025
 - LA Times - May 08, 2025
 - New York Times - January 15, 2025
 - New York Times - November 15, 2024
 - New York Times - August 10, 2024
 - USA Today - July 08, 2024
 - New York Times - April 21, 2024
 - LA Times - April 14, 2024
 - LA Times - April 13, 2024
 - New York Times - February 11, 2024
 - USA Today - November 14, 2023
 - New York Times - October 24, 2023
 - USA Today - August 28, 2023
 - LA Times - July 03, 2023
 - New York Times - May 22, 2023
 - LA Times - May 10, 2023
 - USA Today - April 25, 2023
 
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