| HELIX | Returning from exile holding a coil (5) |
| TWIRL | A curly figure, flourish or squiggle; a twiddle with the thumbs; a pirouette or rapid gyration; something wound, such as a coil; or, a spin of a baton (5) |
| BIGHT | Old English for "bend, angle", thus a word for a coil or loop in rope; or, a curve in a coastline, such as a bay (5) |
| WHORL | Whether a coil, convolution, spiral or verticil in a corolla, fingerprint or seashell, it is an etymological spin-off from the medieval "flywheel" (5) |
| LOGIC | Reason to wind a coil round a small weight (5) |
| TESLA | Name of a coil |
| SKEIN | Yarn in a coil |
| WOUND | Rolled into a coil |
| BANISH | From exile, making a comeback in knock-about (6) |
| EXPATIATE | Go on at length, writing, say, from exile |
| ELI | Priest coming back from exile (3) |
| BENIGNOAQUINO | Which political leader was assassinated at the Manila Airport upon his return from exile? (7,6) |
| RINGATU | Religion which was established by Te Kooti after his escape from exile on the Chatham Islands in 1868 (7) |
| ROULEAU | A coil of ribbon or a tube of fabric as a trimming for a coat or a dress; or, a stack of coins wrapped in paper (7) |
| LOOP | A coil in string or yarn; a picot; a jubilee clip; or, a manoeuvre in which a plane describes a circle in the air (4) |
| RHEOSTAT | A variable resistance, usually consisting of a coil of wire with a terminal at one end (8) |
| TURN | An act of kindness; a short walk; or, one round of a coil in a knot (4) |
| UNROLL | Straighten out from a coil |
| CALICO | A white fabric currently found in a coil |
| ELECTROMAGNET | It's formed by winding a coil of wire round soft iron and passing a current through it |
