| AQUIETPLACE | 2018 American horror film about post-apocalyptic survival, in a world inhabited by blind monsters with good hearing |
| REIDPLANET | 2000 sci-fi thriller about a world inhabited by clones of former senator Harry? |
| EATS | Helps ensure survival in a sweatshop |
| SCREAM | American horror-film franchise (6) |
| NEEDFUL | American horror film based on Stephen King's novel, ------- Things (7) |
| THEBLAIRWITCH | ___ Project 1999 supernatural horror film about three filmmakers who film a documentary about a local legend: 3 wds. |
| BEAM | Word for a tree originally, hence its survival in names of arbors including the "horn" and "white" species; or, a transverse timber of a ship, hence the greatest width of said vessel (4) |
| BRAILLE | Communication system used by blind and visually-impaired people; a code of raised dots and cells invented in 1824 (7) |
| INSIDIOUS | 2010 horror film about a comatose child trapped in a realm called The Further |
| EXORCIST | The __, 1973 horror film about a girl possessed by a demon (8) |
| WALLACE | Scottish national hero recounted in a poem by Blind Harry (7) |
| WOODCRAFT | Collective experience and knowledge in camping, fishing, hunting and other outdoor pursuits for sustaining survival in forested habitats; or, skill in caring for trees (9) |
| TOBUILDAFIRE | Jack London short story about survival in the Yukon Territory, and the goal of this puzzle? |
| GOTTI | 2018 American biographical crime drama film starring John Travolta |
| GRINGO | 2018 American crime comedy film starring Charlize Theron (6) |
| SPIKELEE | Director of the 2018 American biographical drama film BlackkKlansman (5,3) |
| CAMILACABELLO | Singer named New Artist Of The Year at the 2018 American Music Awards, held on October 9 (6,7) |
| RIPOFF | Repeated phrase about Post Office in Gloria Hunniford's Britain (3-3) |
| ROEG | Director Nicolas currently making a horror film about a race of immortals who depend on sex to maint |
| ABRAHAM | Benjamin Walker horror film about a US president with a secret identity, ___ Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (7) |
