| 20 answers for: Shaped to facilitate wind dispersal, a helicopter,... |
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| RANK | ANSWER | CLUE |
| KEYFRUIT | Shaped to facilitate wind dispersal, a helicopter, samara, spinning jenny or whirligig of an ash, elm, maple or sycamore tree (3-5) |
| SAMARA | Word primarily for an elm seed, but also an achene, helicopter, key-fruit or whirligig of an ash or birch tree (6) |
| ASH | The seeds of this deciduous tree have a light flat casing, known as a samara, to help wind dispersal |
| HARGREAVES | Weaver from Lancashire who invented the spinning jenny; or, the author and illustrator who created the Mr. Men and Little Miss book series (10) |
| RELENT | Subject line of an Ash Wednesday memo |
| PINWHEEL | A revolving firework; a whirl-like sandwich or puff-pastry savoury; a paper windmill or whirligig; Haworth's aeonium; or, an escapement for lifting the hammer of a striking clock (8) |
| AIR | Invisible gaseous mixture through which radio or sound waves travel; a breeze or zephyr, such as that needed to disperse a samara; a melody; or, the "flight" of a skier mid jump (3) |
| SPINNER | Folk name for a nightjar; a trout lure; a rapidly rotating cricket ball delivered by a bowler of the same name; or, a whirligig (7) |
| WINDMILL | A building with sails or vanes generating power to grind grain into flour; or, a toy whirligig or pinwheel, suggestive of said aerogenerator (8) |
| TOP | A toy whirligig; or, a carrot leaf, crest, crown cap, jersey, lid, tee shirt, tuft of hair, summit, uppermost part of a high boot or other apical thing (3) |
| TOPS | Spinning toys such as dreidels, teetotums or whirligigs; carrot greens; crown caps for beer bottles; crests, summits or tufts; or, henleys, jerseys, tees or other upper garments (4) |
| KEYS | The guides or legends to a map's symbology; or, the samaras of trees such as ash, maple or sycamore (4) |
| SPIN | Word meaning "draw out and twist into thread" originally, now "revolve", as in a cricket ball, subatomic particle, washer's drum or whirligig, e.g. (4) |
| ASHKEY | Any one of a fascicle of fraxinum samaras growing in clusters, imagined to resemble bunches of lock-openers (3-3) |
| ARKWRIGHT | Richard ____ and John Kay developed the spinning frame, an improvement on the previous spinning jenny |
| SEEDS | Embryonic plants such as those encased within an oak's acorns, a sycamore's samaras, a horse chestnut's prickly husks or a Chinese lantern's papery calyxes (5) |
| BEETLE | Based on "biter", a darkling, firefly, ladybird, longhorn, jewel, rose chafer, scarab, weevil, whirligig or other coleopteran synonymous with hurry, scurry or scuttle (6) |
| ENS | Big portions of a spinning jenny? |
| YARN | Output of a spinning jenny |
| FEMALE | Like a jenny or vixen |
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