| ARBOR | A spindle |
| MANDREL | A spindle in a lathe to which a workpiece is fixed while being turned; a jeweller's tapering triblet on which rings are shaped or sized; or, a miner's pick (7) |
| WHEEL | A potter's turntable; a driver's steering mechanism; or, a yarn-spinner's machine with a spindle (5) |
| COPPIN | Dialect for the crest or top of a hill; or, a conical mass of thread on a spindle, possibly tump-shaped (6) |
| IMPALERIDER | Put a contract addition on a spindle? |
| CENTROMERE | In biology, part of a chromosome attached to a spindle fibre during cell division, where the chromat |
| HASP | In which a spindle is part of a lock |
| DISPEL | Get rid of a spindle, perhaps, that hasn't a central point |
| SPINNING | Action of converting fibres into yarn with a spindle/spike, or of exercising hard on a stationary bike (8) |
| UNREEL | Take off a spindle |
| AXLE | Learner breaks tool making a spindle |
| COP | Ball of thread on a spindle |
| SHAFT | Another name for a spindle (5) |
| IMPALE | Stick on a spindle |
| SPITROAST | Barbecue on a spindle (4-5) |
| ARIL | Eg a spindle seed's fleshy orange covering... found in tamarillo (4) |
| WHORL | Word for a spindle's flywheel or wharve originally, later a pattern of concentric circles; a single convolution in a spiral shell; a radial arrangement of petals or leaves; or, a gyre or swirl in a fi |
| CAPSTAN | A machine with a drum that rotates around a vertical spindle and is turned by a motor or lever, used for hauling in heavy ropes, etc (7) |
| PINION | Outer part of a bird's wing including the flight feathers / toothed spindle engaging a wheel |
| JENNY | Machine patented by James Hargreaves in 1770 that wound yarn onto more than one spindle at a time (8,5) |
