| VOLUTE | A spiral scroll or helix of an Ionic or Corinthian capital; or, a sea snail with a shell resembling this (6) |
| TRITON | A merman-like conch shell-trumpeting Greek god whose name is given to a moon of Neptune and a sea snail with a spiral shell (6) |
| TAMBOUR | A small shallow drum; a rich kind of goldwork; an embroidery frame; the campana or vase of a Corinthian capital; or, a lobby or vestibule in a church porch (7) |
| AUGER | A plumber's snake; a gimlet, wimble or other boring tool; or, a sea snail in the genus Terebra with a drill bit-like tapering spiral shell (5) |
| POLARON | A conducting electron in an ionic crystal |
| ABALONE | Sea snail with a mother-of-pearl shell |
| DORIC | Not Ionic or Corinthian |
| AMMONITE | Fossil cephalopod with a coiled chambered shell resembling a ram's horn (8) |
| AMMONITES | Fossil cephalopods with a coiled, chambered shell resembling a ram's horn |
| STEMMA | A garland; a family tree, genealogy or pedigree; a scroll; or, a diagram showing the relationship between a text and its existing manuscripts (6) |
| SPIRAL | A coil or helix, such as that observed in a winding staircase (6) |
| UNFURL | Roll out, like a scroll or a flag (6) |
| COIL | Spiral or helix |
| SAW | "Scroll" or "coping" tool |
| CATSEYE | Name of a chartreuse-yellow variety of chatoyant chrysoberyl; a planetary nebula; a reflective road stud; a sea snail; or, a toy marble, reminiscent of an oeil de chat (4-3) |
| NEMO | Sea captain of a 1954 Disney film, or a sea creature of a 2003 Disney film |
| CONESHELL | A type of marine snail with a potent venom, which it delivers through a harpoonlike dart (4,5) |
| STRAND | A string of pearls or beads; poetic word for a shore; or, one of the two chains forming the double helix of DNA (6) |
| COLUMN | Architectural pillar crowned with a capital; or, a regular feature in a newspaper on a reoccurring theme such as books, food, sport or style (6) |
| HERMIT | --- crab, a nocturnal, softbodied crustacean, living in the empty shell of a sea snail or similar molluscs (6) |
