The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word LUTE
I've seen this crossword clue in The Times
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More clues leading to the result LUTE
- Face falling off glass instrument
- Instrument has loudly suppressed another one
- One made to pluck hot stuff from mouth?
- Large mass removed from noiseless instrument
- Initial figure reduced by half for attractive instrument
- Instrument in sack, you say?
- Stringed instrument: instrument’s first plucked
- Clay instrument with top missing
- Fellow leaving instrument finds another
- Fellow quits one instrument for another
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The straight part
We know that "another one" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case another one = lute.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does LUTE mean?
LUTE noun- A fretted stringed instrument of European origin, similar to the guitar, having a bowl-shaped body or soundbox; any of a wide variety of chordophones with a pear-shaped body and a neck whose upper surface is in the same plane as the soundboard, with strings along the neck and parallel to the soundboard.
- To play on a lute, or as if on a lute.
- Thick sticky clay or cement used to close up a hole or gap, especially to make something air-tight.
- A packing ring, as of rubber, for fruit jars, etc.
- (brickmaking) A straight-edged piece of wood for striking off superfluous clay from earth.
- To fix or fasten something with lute.