| CONTORTION | Twisting corn into it could be a twisting of the truth (10) |
| DISTORTION | Cite terrible periodontitis, refusing pie, though it's a twisting of the facts |
| FEARED | Fed some corn into it but wasn't optimistic (6) |
| SPRAIN | Painful twisting of the ligaments around a joint (6) |
| GASTRIC | Sulphur in tragic twisting of the stomach (7) |
| ACCESSROAD | A bit of countryside crossed with a twisting minor route |
| PERVERSION | Drummer recalled reading a distortion of the truth (10) |
| PHILOSOPHY | The rational investigation of the truths and principles of knowledge, reality, and human conduct |
| VALIDATION | Confirmation (of the truth of something) |
| 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) |
| YAW | What describes the twisting of a moving ship or aircraft about a vertical axis? (3) |
| MILL | From "grind", a building equipped with apparatus for crushing corn into flour; the grindstone, quern or machine used; or, a utensil with which to molere coffee beans or peppercorns (4) |
| TORSION | The twisting of roots in a disorderly way (7) |
| GRIND | The daily routine is to turn corn into flour (5) |
| AHISTORICAL | Twisting of a choir's tail that didn't really happen (11) |
| STRETCH | A continuous period of time or expanse of land/water; an exaggeration of the truth; or, elasticity in a fabric or garment (7) |
| DECOR | Without staff, made corn into furnishing scheme (5) |
| STERNAL | Twisting of antlers or of breastbone |
| CHINESEBURN | Twisting of person's forearm flesh (7,4) |
| ETTO | What makes corn into ice cream |
