| HELICAL | Like a spiral |
| TWIST | A cotton or silk thread; a mixed drink; a spiral-shaped barley sugar, breadstick, sliver of lemon zest or ornament in a wineglass stem; a tangle; or, a bend in a road (5) |
| LANE | A streak of dust and gas in a spiral galaxy; a narrow country road between hedges; a passage through a crowd; or, a division of a track or pool for one runner or swimmer (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 |
| WINDER | Word for a step of a spiral staircase; a knob or key for adjusting a clock/watch; a bobbin or spool; a twisting plant; or, a horn-blower (6) |
| WINDED | A step of a spiral staircase; a key or knob for coiling a clock or watch's spring; a bobbin; or, a horn blower (6) |
| BOX | Shrub sometimes clipped into a ball or a spiral; or, a container for a hat, chocolates or a pair of shoes (3) |
| TRITON | A merman-like conch shell-trumpeting Greek god whose name is given to a moon of Neptune and a sea snail with a spiral shell (6) |
| SPIRE | A spiral or coil / anything that tapers to a point capping a tower or a steeple |
| TURNPIKE | Type of road controlled by a tollhouse in the 18th and 19th centuries; a Scottish word for a spiral stairway; or, a cheval-de-frise (8) |
| PINWHEEL | A paper toy windmill or whirligig; a revolving firework; or, a small biscuit, canape or pastry with a spiral cross-section, reminiscent of swirling (8) |
| WHIRL | Rapid secession of social events; or, a spiral-shaped biscuit or a sweet such as a hazelnut in chocolate (5) |
| TURRET | A small tower, usually attached to a building, containing a spiral stair (6) |
| ROLYPOLY | Traditional British pastry pudding that is sliced to reveal a spiral of jam; or, a game of tumbling down a grassy slope (4-4) |
| TRAJAN | A military-oriented ruler, he built a giant hollowed-out column with a spiral staircase within. |
| VOLUTE | A spiral scroll or helix of an Ionic or Corinthian capital; or, a sea snail with a shell resembling this (6) |
| ROULADE | French word for a cylindrical cake, meat loaf or souffle that is sliced to reveal a spiral cross-section; or, a vocal ornament or melisma in music (7) |
| RAMSHORN | A freshwater snail or an ammonite resembling a spiral bony projection of a male sheep or tup (8) |
| STRUDEL | From "whirlpool, eddy" , a rolled pudding of pastry-encased sweet spiced apple, sliced to reveal a spiral- or swirl-like cross-section (7) |
| STROMB | Ancient Greek "whirlwind, spinning top" or effectively anything that spins, today a spiral-shaped whelk-like conch with digitations like pins (6) |
