Possible Clues:

• "Hush!" to Romeo
• Piano that's small, frequently
• Piano, to a pianist
• Easy, as on crime
• Player's piano?
• So to full time, it's mushy and not just in the middle
• Tender extract from 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles'
• Old French in the way not strict
• Like fuzzy slippers
• The side of James