| WESO | "Tell me why are ___ blind to see..." ("Gangsta's Paradise" lyric) |
| XYLOSE | Tell me why ten fish are battered, Sugar? (6) |
| BRAILLE | Raised letters for the blind to see (7) |
| MERE | "I get no kick from champagne; ... alcohol doesn't thrill me at all; So tell me why should it be true; That I get a kick out of you" |
| EXPLAIN | Land now exalted into a mountain? Tell me why! (7) |
| EBAY | Weird Al song that wonders, "Tell me why I bid on Shatner's old toupee" |
| WHATISTHISABOUT | "Can you tell me why we're here?" |
| KARLABONOFF | Noted songwriter behind Wynonna Judd's "Tell Me Why" and Linda Ronstadt's "All My Life" |
| HOWCOME | Explain to me why house contains old toilet (3,4) |
| AND | "This matters to me why?" |
| THO | Tennyson's "You Ask Me, Why, ___ Ill at Ease" |
| WIDEAWAKE | "But we are so blind to our own shortcomings, so ____ to those of others" (Jerome K Jerome) |
| LOOKED | Removed the blind to draw attention to agreement with editor (6) |
| INDELIBLE | The French that is, are blind to it but you can't rub it out! |
| COOLIO | Rapper who didn't want Weird Al Yankovic to parody Gangsta's Paradise as Amish Paradise (but the record company gave Yankovic permission) |
| TELL | 1964 Beatles song, ---- Me Why (4) |
| ASK | _ Me Why, early Beatles song (3) |
| THATSCOOLIOS | Exclamation about an item belonging to the rapper behind "Gangsta's Paradise"? |
| OVERS | Go the ___ (blind a pot so as to play at a higher level)* |
| ARMYANTS | Those tiny and large columns that are blind to a private organisation associated with workers (4,4) |
