| PRICKET | Spike on which a candle is stuck (7) |
| WICK | Dialect for a creek, dairy farm, hamlet or village; or, related to "roll of lint, yarn", a long twist of cotton fibres by which a candle or lamp's flame is fed or fuelled with beeswax, oil or tallow ( |
| SPINDLE | From a word meaning revolve or rotate, a spike on which fibres are twisted into yarn; or, a pin on which a bobbin or anything else turns (7) |
| WICKLOW | Why new candle is needed here in Ireland? (7) |
| PRICKLE | Thorn or spike on a plant (7) |
| HITUPON | Discovered by accident - like a badminton player when the shuttlecock is stuck on a rafter (3,4) |
| RISSOLE | Food from Romeo is stuck on bottom of shoe (7) |
| SKEWER | Spike on which kebab is cooked (6) |
| NAIL | Spike on which payment is made straight away (4) |
| PROBING | Trying to find the double spike on the outside (7) |
| NARWHAL | Whale species with ivory spike on forehead (7) |
| CATKINS | Hanging spikes on a willow tree (7) |
| COHERED | She is stuck together in the middle of breaking code (7) |
| TREMBLE | Shake beech, perhaps my ball oddly is stuck inside it (7) |
| PISMIRE | One of ants is stuck in soft mud (7) |
| TRANSIT | Note is stuck up in restaurant passage (7) |
| AGROUND | Silver ring is stuck (7) |
| WICKED | A candle is, for example, and very likely to cause harm |
| WAX | Substance a candle is made of (3) |
| LAYETTE | Finally departed, though is stuck in first gear |
