It plays without music (8)

I believe the answer is:

fountain

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(Other definitions for fountain that I've seen before include "Spring of water" , "Artificially produced jet of water" , "Give out" , "Spurt" , "Artificial jet of water" .)

I've seen this clue in The Globe and Mail.

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