| TURRET | Small tower, often containing a spiral staircase (6) |
| TURRETS | Small towers, often attached to a building, containing a spiral stair (7) |
| POMMEL | Terminating knob on a tower often part of a saddle |
| REPOMAN | Tower, often |
| ANDROMEDA | Constellation in the northern sky containing a spiral galaxy visible to the naked eye |
| 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) |
| TRAJAN | A military-oriented ruler, he built a giant hollowed-out column with a spiral staircase within. |
| SMILEY | Something often containing a single parenthesis |
| TOORIE | Derived from the Scottish meaning "small tower", a word for the bobble, pompom, tassel or tuft on a bonnet or Tam o' Shanter (6) |
| HAMPER | A large basket or wickerwork receptacle, often containing food (6) |
| SCHIST | From the Greek meaning "to split", a metamorphic rock often containing feldspars, garnet porphyroblasts, mica or quartz (6) |
| NEWELS | Spiral staircase pillars |
| INKPOT | Often containing blue liquid changed to pink (6) |
| HENGES | Neolithic earthworks often containing stone circles (6) |
| PEWTER | Metal alloy often containing tin and lead (6) |
| BILGES | Low parts of ships, often containing some dirty water (6) |
| HAHA | A ditch often containing a fence, forming an unseen barrier (2,2) |
| HELIX | Shape often compared to a spiral staircase |
| HENGE | A circular area, often containing a circle of stones or wooden posts, dating from the Neolithic and Bronze Ages |
