| SPINY | Filled with quills |
| PORCUPINE | Rodent with quills |
| HEDGEHOGS | Creatures with quills |
| PORCUPINES | Critters with quills |
| PORCUPETTE | Baby rodent with quills |
| ROC | Flier with quills "twelve paces long," per Marco Polo |
| THORN | Letter written long ago with quill? |
| STINKPOT | Patron of people writing with quill pens? |
| DULCIMERS | Name, from the Latin for "sweet melodies", for trapezoidal zithers with strings plucked with goose quills or struck with hand-held hammers (9) |
| PINE | A fragrant evergreen conifer with woody cones sometimes used as Christmas decorations or placed in seasonal potpourri with citrus slices and cinnamon quills (4) |
| PENNE | Pasta with a name derived from the Italian for "quills" |
| HARPSICHORDS | Piano-like instruments but with strings plucked by quills (12) |
| INKSTAND | Knits woven with a place for quills etc |
| SPINELESS | Weak like a porcupine with no quills (9) |
| MANTICORE | Fabulous creature with the body of a lion, tail of a scorpion, porcupine quills and a human head |
| HAIR | Porcupines have soft ___, but on their back, sides, and tail it is usually mixed with sharp quills |
| STICKS | Word, synonymous with the wilds, for the birches, twigs or withies to which candelabra, celery ribs, cinnamon quills, cocktail skewers, conductors' batons, gear-levers, riding crops, wands, walking-ca |
| PENS | From the Latin for "feathers", word for quills or writing instruments, such as the styli with which schoolmaster Cassian of Imola was stabbed to death by his own students (4) |
| BRISTLING | Getting stiff, like quills |
| HAIRS | Quills |
