ANSWERS: Line 'Em Up 2

It's been roughly two weeks since I posted my second "Line 'Em Up" puzzle, and in the process, gave some free publicity to Phrase Shift by Hyper Hippo, which lead designer Chris Hendricks appreciated very much! He's also one of the twelve people who have solved it since then (two of them solved it together), as you can see in the list below:

• Eric Maddy ****
• Grant Fikes ****
• Yossi Fendel ****
• Sam Levitin ****
• Chris Hendricks ****
• Lynn Sweeney ***
• M. Sean Molley ****
• Mom ****
• YYW ****
• Alex & Eric Milton ****
• Giovanni Pagano ****

Now head below the break for the answers, as well as a couple comments from my solvers!

The letters in the two red columns, reading down, spell out PATRICK STEWART

Solver Yossi Fendel noticed that "His is a fun name that can be clued by stringing words that overlap by one letter:

Touch lightly, as one might do to a bunny in a toddler's book (3)

Ruses (6)

Meal made by cooking up meat and vegetables together in a pot (4)

Witch's facial blemish (4)"

Solver Giovanni Pagano said that his "answer is PATRICK STEWART. I think it is anyway. If not, make it so! (I'm sorry.)

I knew 3 through 7 thankfully, which was enough with 1 for me to get the answer. Didn't know Stellaluna was a BAT. Thanks for the short answers, they at least made the aligning part less painful."