With 38-Across, two things associated with needles

Usage examples of haystack.

Of the rest of the habitations, a few are stone sheds, but the greater part are huts made of the dry stalks of the fine herb called bou rekabah, in the form of a conical English haystack, and are very snug, impervious alike to rain and sun.

Philadelphia customers is armed with a brickbat and is just moving forward to maim Haystack Duggeler with this instrument, when who steps into the situation but Baseball Hattie, who is also on her way to the station to catch a train, and who is greatly horrified by the assault on the Giants.

I am sure, have compassion on our nerves and feelings, and not turn us out dinnerless to sleep under the nearest haystack.

I am sure you did believe, then your old Dustman and Sweep and Lamplighter, your Woman of the Haystack and your Net of Stars and Star Train--all these, for instance, must still be living, where you left them, waiting perhaps for your return to lead their fresh adventures.

The Caermelor Road had threaded its way through farmlands, past garths and granges, crofts and byres, alongside hedged meadows where cattle pondered or shepherds with crosiers in hand followed their flocks, past pitch-roofed haystacks, ponds teeming with ducks, tilled patches of worts in leafy rows, and burgeoning fields of einkorn, emmer, and spelt where hoop-backed reapers toiled, by vineyards glutted with overflow of clammy juice and moss-trunked orchards already ravished, the last windfalls rotting on the ground, their sweet decay choired by sucking insects.

Stephen had had almost no contact with Mr Martin, but now his heart warmed to this young man who shared his passion, who had learnt a great deal, and who had paid for his learning with long journeys on foot, nights spent in byres, haystacks, sheepcotes, even prisons when he was taken up for a poacher, and with the loss of an eye, destroyed by an owl.

Searching for a golden trapezoid in there would be like searching for a needle in a mountain of haystacks.

Now he and his team were looking for an answer the size of a needle in a countywide haystack, with precious little notion of where to start.

He stood for a moment considering her and wishing she looked less like a farmwife, lying in the haystack after a hard day tending pigs.

After all, the only smart way to hunt for a needle in a haystack is to use a magnet.

And my niece Livia Drusa had a girl toward the end of last yeara Porcia, of course, and boasting a head of hair that would set six haystacks on fire.

He saw the Manor House where he was born, the bars across the nightnursery windows, the cedars on the lawn, the haystacks just beyond the stables, and the fields where the rabbits sometimes fell asleep as they sat after enormous meals too stuffed to move.

I mean haystacks opened up, and gooks came out of the wells and holes in the ground.

Fields sped past with a group of haystacks whose tarpaulin skirts spread and lifted in the gust of wind the train made.

Wanlorn asked her if there were any haystacks in the Starn that could be approached unseen from these woods and that would escape being disturbed by farmers in the next day or two.