| FAWNING | Crawling following the blind? |
| DAWKINS | Biologist, fellow of the Royal Society and author of books including The Blind Watchmaker, Unweaving the Rainbow and The Magic of Reality (7) |
| ERASMUS | Theologian who said "In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king" |
| ASYLUMS | What are institutions for the care of the insane, the blind, etc (7) |
| OHER | NFL star Michael who was the basis for the movie "The Blind Side" |
| EYEUP | Carefully consider status of the king of the country of the blind? (3,2) |
| RIDES | --- someone's blind (tries to steal the blind)* |
| MARGARETATWOOD | Canadian writer who won the Booker Prize in 2000 for "The Blind Assassin" |
| EAR | What the blind man who thought the elephant was "like a fan" touched |
| TOLLER | Ernst ___, German author of the stage plays Hoppla, We're Alive and The Blind Goddess (6) |
| ASSASSIN | The Blind ___; A 2000 novel by The Handmaid's Tale author Margaret Atwood (8) |
| MARGARET | ___ Atwood author who won the Man Booker Prize in 2000 for The Blind Assassin |
| SANDRABULLOCK | The Blind Side star who recently won a second Best Actress Oscar for her role in the film Gravity (6, 7) |
| SASHCORD | The blind need it for the ups and down in life? |
| ATWOOD | Margaret; author of the 2000 novel The Blind Assassin (6) |
| HARPIES | In Thrace, these terrible winged creatures had been sent by Zeus to torment the blind Phineus as punishment for blinding his own sons on the advice of their scheming step-mother, whom Jason rescued. W |
| RUNINTOTROUBLE | Unexpectedly meet the wife in The Blind Beggar? (3,4,7) |
| STY | "The ___ of the Blind Pig" (Phillip Hayes Dean play) |
| DOSEE | "...which the blind ___": Shak. |
| AIDTONEEDY | Aid to the blind |
