| DONTYOUWANTME | Plea from the Human League, 1982 |
| SHEFFIELD | Which city are the Arctic Monkeys, the Human League and Pulp from? (9) |
| YEARSLATER | 'Five ___ on, you've got the world at your feet', lyric from Don't You Want Me by The Human League (5,5) (5,5) |
| MIRROR | ____ Man, song by The Human League released in 1982 (6) |
| IWANNABESEDATED | Plea from the Ramones |
| SOS | Help plea from the sea |
| RUFUS | King William hearing plea from the homeless? |
| WHOME | Plea from the innocent |
| STOPSTARINGATME | Plea from the self-conscious |
| HELPME | Plea from the distressed |
| FEELME | Plea from the Who's Tommy |
| OCTOPUS | Name shared by albums by Gentle Giant, The Human League and The Bees |
| OAKEY | Phil _, founder member of The Human League (5) |
| HYSTERIA | Title shared by 1980s albums by The Human League and Def Leppard (8) |
| DARE | Third studio album by synth-pop band The Human League, released in 1981 (4) |
| OPEN | "___ Your Heart", 1981 UK top 10 single by synth-pop band the Human League (4) |
| CHIMPANZEE | Hominid species of the genus Pan which split from the human species 4-6 million years ago (10) |
| BORROWER | A debtor one shouldn't be, according to a saying taken from Polonius in Hamlet a library patron; or, one of the tiny people who pinch from the humans in tales by Mary Norton (8) |
| NORTON | Author of the tales of the tiny Clock family who "borrow" household items and food from the humans they secretly live with, including buttons, cinnamon breadcrumbs, currants, hairpins, postage stamps, |
| ULNA | Bone from the human elbow (4) |
