| ARBOR | A spindle in carborundum |
| 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) |
| 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 | The spindle In a tape-recorder (7) |
| WHEEL | A potter's turntable; a driver's steering mechanism; or, a yarn-spinner's machine with a spindle (5) |
| STAFF | Employees; spindle in watch |
| AXE | Learner leaves spindle in chopper (3) |
| 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 |
| 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? |
| EMERY | Abrasive powder consisting mostly of crushed carborundum - it's useful, on a board, for manicures |
| WHETSTONE | Many modern-day ____s are made of carborundum |
| NIL | ___ carborundum illegitimi (3) |
| FUSEE | Type of spindle in an antique pocket watch; or, large-headed storm match (5) |
| DISPEL | Get rid of a spindle, perhaps, that hasn't a central point |
| ARIL | Eg a spindle seed's fleshy orange covering... found in tamarillo (4) |
| UNREEL | Take off a spindle |
| AXLE | Student breaks tool making a spindle (4) |
| COP | Ball of thread on a spindle |
