| TORRIDLOVEOFFAIRS | Passion for Ferris wheels and funnel cakes? |
| STATEFAIR | Place to find corn dogs and funnel cakes |
| BRODERICK | Actor best known for Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Matthew ... (9) |
| COBWEBS | What are made in orb, triangle and funnel shapes? (7) |
| TAGLINE | "One man's struggle to take it easy," for "Ferris Bueller" |
| OIL | What funnel cakes are cooked in |
| CHURRO | Funnel cake's Latin American cousin |
| RIDES | Ferris wheels and merry-go-rounds, for example |
| STATEFAIRS | Events with Ferris wheels and livestock competitions |
| RPI | Alma mater for the engrs. of the Ferris Wheel and the Brooklyn Bridge |
| TILTAWHIRL | Bad carnival ride for someone who just ate a funnel cake, a corn dog, and six deep-fried Oreos |
| CARNIVALDESIRES | Yearnings to ride Ferris wheels, see sideshows, etc.? |
| ALA | Funnel cake ___ mode |
| CARNIVALEATS | Cooking Channel show that might feature a funnel cake bacon cheeseburger |
| CARS | A Ferris wheel's gondolas; or, from the Latin for "two-wheeled wagons", vehicles such as the early tin lizzies or shooting brakes or those featured at the Goodwood Festival of Speed (4) |
| UPINTHEFAIR | At a ferris wheel's pinnacle? |
| NARCOS | Managed wheels and companies for Escobar and his kind (6) |
| HERMANNPAUL | Herr Muller, who won races on two, three, and four wheels, and still holds the record for being the oldest ever motorcycle world champion. (7,4) |
| TYRES | Covering for wheels and exhausts we hear (5) |
| LANDINGGEAR | The wheels and shock absorbers that support an aircraft on the ground and enable it to take off (7,4) |
