| RINGLET | Lock of hair hanging down in a spiral curl |
| RINGLETS | Locks of hair hanging down in spiral curls (8) |
| COWLICK | Lock of hair hanging over the forehead |
| 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 |
| 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) |
| SUSPENDER | One hanging down in elastic hose support |
| LOCKS | Portions of hair hanging together (5) |
| STALACTITE | A tapering deposit of calcite hanging down like an icicle from the roof of a cave (10) |
| DISC | Word describing the shape of a flattened circular mass of stars, gases and dust in a spiral galaxy (4) |
| GLOBIGERINA | Marine micro-organism with a calcareous shell of chambers in a spiral (11) |
| CHANTILLY | The Big Bopper sang about this kind of lace - and a pretty face, and a ponytail hanging down |
| EARFLAP | Hanging-down part of a winter cap |
| ICICLE | Pointed piece of frozen water hanging down from a surface (6) |
| TAILSPIN | The rapid fall of a plane towards the ground in a spiral movement (8) |
| SNAIL | Mollusc whose "caracol" is reflected in a spiral staircase; or a half-turn or wheel in dressage (5) |
| CARACOLE | Spanish "snail-shell" whose voluted form is reflected in a horse's half-turn or in a spiral staircase/well (8) |
| TENDRIL | A plant's slender threadlike shoot, often growing in a spiral form (7) |
| GYRATE | Good tray changed a way to move in a spiral |
| FRINGE | Hair hanging over the forehead (6) |
| FLAG | From an obsolete word for "hanging down", an emblematic colours known collectively as bunting; or, from the idea of said drooping, a word used to mean "grow tired" (4) |
