| PITCHDARK | Why you couldn't see the yawning ditch in the park? (5,4) |
| DUMBBELL | Why you couldn't gain admission to the gym? (4-4) |
| EXCUSE | Reason why you couldn't do something |
| SHADOWS | Dogs in parades cross a ditch in the corner (7) |
| GUMP | Couldn't see the wood for the trees was this wacky Hanks character, if you please. (4) |
| SOMEBODYHELPME | Bit of "Brian Wilson" by the Barenaked Ladies: "___ ___ ___ / I couldn't see the ground..." |
| HOOD | Little innocent was she - never minding granny - who couldn't see the wood for trees! (3,6,4) |
| REDRIDING | Little innocent was she - never minding granny - who couldn't see the wood for trees! (3,6,4) |
| BLAKELIVELY | Actress who wore contact lenses she couldn't see through to play a blind woman in "All I See Is You": 2 wds. |
| CHING | Dynasty buried in ditch in Georgia. (5) |
| ECLAMPSIA | Grasps one dumped in ditch in terrible condition? |
| SCARP | What is the inner wall or slope of a ditch in a fortification? (5) |
| ISEE | '___, said the blind man, when he couldn't see at all. ' (1,3) |
| JAREDLETO | Actor who wore contacts he couldn't see through to play a blind villain in "Blade Runner 2049": 2 wds. |
| ESCARP | Inner side of ditch in fortifications (6) |
| ITCHING | Impatient to get out of ditch, in general (7) |
| COUNTERSCARP | Outer wall of a ditch in fortification |
| CHINDIT | Ditch in damaged WWII fighter (7) |
| SHEUCH | A woman heading off by far ditch in Dunfermline |
| HAHA | Concealed ditch in landscape gardening (2-2) |
