Answer:

DEAF

Answer	Crossword Clue
DEAF	Refusing to listen
DEAF	Unwilling to listen
DEAF	Turn a .. ear to

DEAF	Unheeding
DEAF	Heedless
DEAF	Not heeding
DEAF	Impervious to pleas
DEAF	Like many dactylology experts
DEAF	Unable to attend?
DEAF	Like a turned ear
DEAF	Like most sign-language users

DEAF	Unyielding
DEAF	Not able to hear
DEAF	Like many signers
DEAF	Unable to hear
DEAF	Like heedless ears
DEAF	Word after stone or tone
DEAF	Intentionally inattentive
DEAF	Like some turned ears

DEAF	Hearing-deprived
DEAF	Like many who sign
DEAF	Tone-...
DEAF	Unhearing
DEAF	Hard of hearing
DEAF	What Beethoven started to become in 1801
DEAF	Like Helen Keller
DEAF	Spurning all advice

DEAF	Unwilling to listen, with "to"
DEAF	Not hearing
DEAF	Like an ignorer's ear, idiomatically
DEAF	Like Beethoven in his later years
DEAF	Like The Who's Tommy
DEAF	Dumb partner
DEAF	Tone- --: unmusical
DEAF	Unresponsive, with "to"

DEAF	Fall on .. ears
DEAF	Ignoring, with "to"
DEAF	Unable or unwilling to hear
DEAF	Like many Gallaudet College students
DEAF	Turn a .. ear