| CERVANTES | "Fortune turns round like a mill-wheel, he was yesterday at the top, lies today at the bottom." He wrote about someone who tilted at windmills, in Don Quixote. Who is this? |
| ROTATES | When something turns round like a wheel, it does what (7) |
| CALMER | More like a mill pond? |
| TOMORROW | What today was, yesterday (8) |
| ROTATE | Turn round like a 360 rig (6) |
| RACE | Stream conducting water to or from a mill wheel; or, a contest of speed by running, sailing, riding etc (4) |
| REEF | A ridge of rock, sand or coral, whose top lies close to the surface of the sea (4) |
| MALLRACE | The channel in which water runs away below a mill-wheel (8) |
| CLEVEREST | Highest top lies under the cloud's lowest tops, where it's most bright (9) |
| SPINS | 'Wheel of Fortune' turns |
| POLITE | Use a top lie but be well-mannered in doing so (6) |
| YOUSPINME | ___ Round (Like a Record) a song by the popular '80s band Dead or Alive from their album Youthquake: 3 wds. |
| CROISSANT | "Today at the bookstore I bought a ___..." |
| POST | Collectively, the leading types today at The Gate (4) |
| GREENLIGHT | Born yesterday at the match? That's something to go on! (5,5) |
| PHIL | Talk-show legend Donahue who passed away yesterday at the age of 88 |
| HEAD | Word for a capitulum of flowers; an effigy on a coin; one's "upper storey"-encasing caput; a cabbage or lettuce, dense and round like said anterior bonce; a schoolmaster/mistress; a nide of pheasants; |
| NICETY | Subtle detail in French city today at the margins (6) |
| WITTY | Humorous Caribbean trio leaving carnival site today at the margins (5) |
| LOXODROMICAL | Following a type of curve, left to steer round like a race-course |
