| CROMPTON | Inventor of the spinning mule (8) |
| SAMUEL | Forename of either the inventor of the spinning mule, a notable English diarist, the leader of the Shoreham Ancients or a fictional snuff-taking rat from whom Tom Kitten escapes (6) |
| SAMUELCROMPTON | The inventor of the spinning mule |
| HARGREAVES | James _ (c 1720 - 1778), the Inventor of the spinning Jenny (10) |
| ARKWRIGHT | Inventor of the spinning frame; or, Granville's uncle in Open All Hours (9) |
| GYRATION | The spinning of a toy ring perhaps (8) |
| ROTATION | The spinning motion of a planet about an internal axis (8) |
| TEACLOTH | A fool shut in the spinning drier (3,5) |
| BOBBIN | A reel or spool of yarn in a sewing machine or held by a spinning mule's creel; or, in haberdashery, narrow cord or braid used as a trimming (6) |
| WHEELS | The simple machines to which dances, discs of cheese, dollar coins, potters' turntables, "St Catherine's" revolving fireworks and yarn twisters' spinning mules are likened (6) |
| ADDRESSBOOKS | Talk on TransAtlantic, The Spinning Heart and The Testament of Mary necessary when sending Christmas |
| PERENNIAL | Everlasting ringing of bells around the spinning interior (9) |
| COMPUTERCRASH | What the "spinning beach ball of death" might indicate |
| OPTED | Went for the spinning top, the boy did (5) |
| SPIDER | Dips before the queen then does the spinning |
| SPOT | See the spinning toys coming up |
| SPIDERS | Sir sped off while they did the spinning (7) |
| RIDEA | "___ painted pony let the spinning wheel ..." (song lyric) |
| POTTER | One behind The Spinning Wheel gives Kitty central computer codes (6) |
| RICHARD | British cotton manufacturer who patented the spinning frame in 1769 (7) |
