| Miss Marple or Miss Havisham | 28 |
| Maiden lady | 11 |
| Frumpy loner, stereotypically | 29 |
| Eleanor Rigby, for one | 22 |
| Bachelorette's older relative | 33 |
| Bachelorette, pejoratively | 26 |
| Bachelor bait | 13 |
| "Arsenic and Old Lace" aunt, e.g. | 43 |
| Physicians who treat unmarried women? | 37 |
| Unmarried women, once | 21 |
| Unmarried women | 15 |
| Certain loners | 14 |
| Bachelorettes? | 14 |
| "Arsenic and Old Lace" aunts, e.g. | 44 |
| Push, in Pisa | 13 |
| Kissing game? | 13 |
| Bug's favorite kissing game? | 32 |
| Bussing game | 12 |
| Roulette maneuver | 17 |
| Roulette instruction | 20 |
| Play a Merv Griffin creation | 28 |
| Do some indoor cycling with a few in you? | 41 |
| Small thorn | 11 |
| Thistle parts | 13 |
| Plant thorns | 12 |
| Like cacti | 10 |
| Like porcupines | 15 |
| Like cactuses | 13 |
| Like cactus | 11 |
| Like a cactus | 13 |
| Quill-filled | 12 |
| Quill-equipped | 14 |
| Like the barrel cactus | 22 |
| Like something you might get stuck with | 39 |
| Like some lobsters | 18 |
| Like some hedgehogs | 19 |
| Like some anteaters | 19 |
| Like sea urchins | 16 |
| Like mesquite trees | 19 |
| Like hedgehogs and cacti | 24 |
| Like hedgehogs | 14 |
| Having some hard processes | 26 |
| Full of quills | 14 |
| Covered with prickles | 21 |
| What storytellers do | 20 |
| Prickly trait carrier? | 22 |
| Edmund's opposite number in the 1968 campaign | 49 |
| Moldings at base of a column | 28 |
| Coil, in Calabria | 17 |
| Air hole | 8 |
| Insect's opening for air | 28 |
| Meadowsweet | 11 |
| Flowering shrub with white or pink flowers | 42 |
| Helical | 7 |
| Nautilus shape | 14 |
| Perfect pass | 12 |
| Corkscrew shape | 15 |
| Helix shape | 11 |
| Fusilli's shape | 19 |
| Type of notebook | 16 |
| Type of galaxy | 14 |
| Staircase shape | 15 |
| Quarterback's pass, hopefully | 33 |
| Nice pass | 9 |
| Montana pass? | 13 |
| Milky Way's shape | 21 |
| Inflationary path | 17 |
| Galaxy shape | 12 |
| Well-tossed pigskin | 19 |
| Well-thrown football pass | 25 |
| Type of football pass | 21 |
| Tight NFL throw | 15 |
| Tailspin | 8 |
| Standard pass | 13 |
| Snail shell shape | 17 |
| Skillful pass | 13 |
| Shape of the Milky Way | 22 |
| Rotini shape | 12 |
| Pigskin pass | 12 |
| Perfect pigskin toss | 20 |
| Pasta or staircase shape | 24 |
| Notebook type | 13 |
| Like some shells | 16 |
| Like one end of the Yellow Brick Road | 37 |
| Kind of stairway | 16 |
| Inflation, metaphorically | 25 |
| Inflation course | 16 |
| Helical form | 12 |
| Gyroidal | 8 |
| Godsmack song that winds? | 25 |
| Form of a well-thrown pigskin | 29 |
| Football motion | 15 |
| Drew Brees toss | 15 |
| Conch shell shape | 17 |
| Common notebook binding | 23 |
| Cochlea shape | 13 |
| A helix | 7 |
| Like some notebooks | 19 |
| Rotated, as a football | 22 |
| Went up in a hurry | 18 |