Spots head of curly hair (6)
I believe the answer is:
clocks
'spots' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both man-made objects as well as being plural nouns.
Maybe you can see a link between them that I don't see?
'head of curly hair' is the wordplay.
'head of' suggests taking the first letters.
'hair' becomes 'locks' (locks can mean hair).
The initial letter of 'curly' is 'c'.
'c'+'locks'='CLOCKS'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for clocks that I've seen before include "Timepieces" , "Timers" , "Notices" .)