Historical clue formulations

• Like typical communicators in sign language — 2026-05-05
• Like many users of sign language — 2026-03-30
• Like Tommy in the Who's 1969 rock opera — 2025-04-20
• The "D" in CODA — 2024-02-07
• Like Beethoven, by his mid-40s — 2023-12-27
• Like many sign language users — 2022-11-21
• Like most Gallaudet University students — 2022-10-31
• Not able to hear — 2022-09-12
• Like Juliette Gordon Low, founder of the Girl Scouts — 2022-07-31
• Like many signers — 2022-07-14
• ___ Studies (Gallaudet University department) — 2022-06-26
• What 49-Down became in later life — 2020-12-17
• Tone-___ — 2020-10-18
• Like the daughter in 2018's "A Quiet Place" — 2019-11-02
• Tone-___ — 2019-07-20
• Unmindful — 2018-10-06
• ___ ears — 2017-04-15
• Refusing to listen — 2016-01-20
• Dependent on subtitles, say — 2015-04-28
• Like many users of sign language — 2015-03-23
• Needing sign language, say — 2012-12-17
• Unable to hear — 2011-12-05
• Not to be persuaded — 2010-05-23
• ___ as a post — 2009-04-28
• "Are you ___?!" — 2008-07-06
• Like most users of sign language — 2008-01-28
• See 73-Across — 2007-12-16
• Unhearing — 2007-07-16
• Like Beethoven — 2006-09-20
• Like Tommy, of the Who's 1969 rock opera — 2004-10-14
• Unwilling to listen — 2003-12-03
• See 22-Down — 2001-05-27
• Like Beethoven — 2001-03-01
• Ones who sign, with "the" — 1999-09-11
• Refusing to listen — 1998-02-25
• Not hearing — 1998-01-27
• Heedless — 1998-01-22
• Kind of ears — 1997-09-28
• Not able to hear — 1997-02-10
• Unpersuadable — 1996-07-03
• Kind of ear — 1996-06-09
• Incognizant — 1996-04-19
• Heedless — 1996-02-20
• Fall on _____ ears — 1994-11-14
• Hard of hearing — 1994-06-17
• Unyielding — 1994-03-24