| EXITLINE | Blanche DuBois's "I have always depended on the kindness of strangers," e.g. |
| ARAB | Victim in Camus's "The Stranger," e.g. |
| STELLA | Blanche DuBois's younger sister |
| ELITE | Like DuBois's "Talented Tenth" |
| BLANCHEBOIS | Heroine who declares "I have always depended on the kindness of strangers" |
| BLANCHE | *"I have always depended on the kindness of strangers" |
| STRANGERS | "I have always depended on the kindness of ...," said Vivien Leigh as Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar |
| KINDNESS | "I have always depended on the ... of strangers" (A Streetcar Named Desire) |
| ADIE | Kate -, journalist; author of 2002 autobiography The Kindness Of Strangers (4) |
| HUMANITY | The kindness of people (8) |
| HITCH | Type of knot; a movie with Will Smith; or, the nickname of the director whose films include of Strangers on a Train, Rear Window and The Birds (5) |
| MCEWAN | English author of novels including The Comfort of Strangers and On Chesil Beach, and of several screenplays including The Ploughman's Lunch (6) |
| PARADISE | "I have always imagined that ___ will be a kind of library." - Jorge Luis Borges |
| INDUSTRY | In the beginning, what's at the heart of this is what we have always been, really, from start to finish, despite all of this busy work. (8) |
| JERI | "The Courage of Strangers: Coming of Age with the Human Rights Movement" memoirist Laber |
| SSN | Its first three digits once depended on the assignee's loc. |
| HAMMOCK | The rest of the navy once depended on it (7) |
| HIGHSMITH | Patricia ---, author of Strangers On A Train and The Talented Mr Ripley (9) |
| SNOW | C.P., author of Strangers and Brothers and describer of "the two cultures" (4) |
| LEANT | Depended on the French worker |
