| ORACULAR | It's as prophetic as a curl or a twist can be (8) |
| SEDUCTIVE | Cute dives, performed with a twist, can be appealing (9) |
| REEFER | It helps form a curl, or a long wave (6) |
| AUSPICES | I see pauses as prophetic tokens (8) |
| HAT | Airhead move: A few simple twists can transform a balloon into funny for the birthday boy or girl* |
| MARTINI | Cocktail of gin and vermouth with an olive or a twist of lemon (7) |
| OMENS | Some women see them as prophetic signs (5) |
| HIPPOCRATES | Doctor prophetic - as his father? |
| PLOT | Twists can thicken it |
| ROTATION | A word for a spin of a planet, turn of a wheel or other axial turn; a cycle of alternating arable fields for crops or felling trees; a mathematical curl; or, any recurrent order (8) |
| STRAIGHT | A run of five consecutive cards of any suit in poker; a description of hair without curls or waves; or, the final stretch of a racecourse (8) |
| PILCHARD | A curl of the lip at a vegetable, is fishy! (8) |
| MUSCULAR | Brawny American, sporting a curl, following Mark (8) |
| WREATH | A curl or ring of cloud or smoke (6) |
| CRIMP | Shape (hair) into a curl or wave (5) |
| FAVOURITE | A pampered court darling or indulged minion of a king; a horse expected to win; an 18th-century-style curl or lovelock, tight like a ring; or, any most dear treasured thing (9) |
| SCROLL | Volute or similar motif in the form of a curl of paper/parchment, as seen in art, on the capital of a column or at the end of a stringed instrument such as a violin (6) |
| TUCK | Old "pull/tug, punish, ill-treat", today's fold in a fabric, garment or sheet; a curl up of one's legs after a long day on one's feet; or, a tummy's cosmetic pleat (4) |
| CRIMPER | Coiffeur who curls or waves hair; or, a utensil for sealing the edges of pasties, pies or other pastry-based fare (7) |
| REP | One curl or press, for a gym-goer |
