Corkscrews and such

PASTA

Think of long, twisted strands you might twirl on a fork at dinner.

"Corkscrews" here isn’t about wine openers—it’s a playful nod to corkscrew pasta, a spiral-shaped noodle. The clue uses "and such" to hint at other pasta shapes (like penne or fusilli) under the same umbrella term. It’s a classic crossword trick where a word’s secondary meaning (pasta shapes) replaces its more common one (the tool). The answer is simply the category that ties them all together.