| 1930 winner of golf's Grand Slam | 36 |
| 1930 Vincent Youmans song | 25 |
| 1930 Triple Crown jockey | 24 |
| 1930 tariff co-author | 21 |
| 1930 tariff act cosponsor | 25 |
| 1930 tariff act co-sponsor | 26 |
| 1930 Physics Nobelist Sir Chandrasekhara Venkara ___ | 52 |
| 1930 novel whose title was taken from "Twelfth Night" | 63 |
| 1930 novel that takes its title from Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" | 80 |
| 1930 novel about sleeping in dirty pajamas? | 43 |
| 1930 Nobelist in physics | 24 |
| 1930 Nobelist in literature | 27 |
| 1930 Marlene Dietrich film, with "The" | 48 |
| 1930 Literature Nobelist | 24 |
| 1930 Laurel and Hardy film | 26 |
| 1930 Joan Crawford movie | 24 |
| 1930 Jean Harlow flick? | 23 |
| 1930 hit "The _____ Waltz" | 36 |
| 1930 Harry Richman hit whose title describes ostentatious living | 64 |
| 1930 Harold Arlen song | 22 |
| 1930 Gershwin musical | 21 |
| 1930 Clyde Tombaugh discovery | 29 |
| 1930 Best Picture nominee, with "The" | 47 |
| 1929's Flying Cloud, for one | 32 |
| 1929's "Street Girl" was its first official production | 68 |
| 1929 women's air race, as dubbed by Will Rogers | 51 |
| 1929 Wallace Thurman play | 25 |
| 1929 Virginia Woolf title | 25 |
| 1929 Variety headline | 21 |
| 1929 song that spawned a classic 1952 musical | 45 |
| 1929 song cowritten by Fats Waller | 34 |
| 1929 song co-written by Fats Waller | 35 |
| 1929 sealing device | 19 |
| 1929 role for Ronald Colman | 27 |
| 1929 occurrence | 15 |
| 1929 novel, and this puzzle's title | 39 |
| 1929 novel about aliens leaving home? | 37 |
| 1929 Literature Nobelist | 24 |
| 1929 literary character in San Francisco | 40 |
| 1929 Irving Berlin song | 23 |
| 1929 Irving Berlin pop hit | 26 |
| 1929 Irving Berlin classic | 26 |
| 1929 hit for Ethel Waters | 25 |
| 1929 hit "____ Love Song" | 35 |
| 1929 Hemingway book, with "A" | 39 |
| 1929 headline word | 18 |
| 1929 Hammett novel | 18 |
| 1929 globe circumnavigator | 26 |
| 1929 Gershwin song | 18 |
| 1929 event | 10 |
| 1929 Ethel Waters hit whose title is a question | 47 |
| 1929 Cole Porter song | 21 |
| 1929 "Powder Puff Derby" participant | 46 |
| 1929 #1 hit whose title follows the line "Now he's gone and we're through" | 92 |
| 1928, 1932 and 1936 Olympic gold medalist | 41 |
| 1928's Happy Warrior | 24 |
| 1928 Winter Olympics site | 25 |
| 1928 trademark song for Ruth Etting | 35 |
| 1928 role for Mae | 17 |
| 1928 party line | 15 |
| 1928 pact name | 14 |
| 1928 Oscar winner Jannings | 26 |
| 1928 orchestral work originally commissioned by a dancer | 56 |
| 1928 musical composition originally called "Fandango" | 63 |
| 1928 movie subtitled "The King of the Beasts" | 55 |
| 1928 hit with the lyric "I'm in heaven when I see you smile" | 74 |
| 1928 Fritz Lang thriller | 24 |
| 1928 Eddie Cantor song | 22 |
| 1928 destroyer of the village of Mascali | 40 |
| 1928 A.L. batting champ | 23 |
| 1928 #1 song heard in a 1990 Steve Martin film of the same name | 63 |
| 1927-31 Ford | 12 |
| 1927's Flying Cloud, for one | 32 |
| 1927's "The Jazz Singer," notably | 47 |
| 1927 Virginia Woolf novel | 25 |
| 1927 Upton Sinclair novel | 25 |
| 1927 soft-shoe classic | 22 |
| 1927 Peace Nobelist Ludwig | 26 |
| 1927 musical | 12 |
| 1927 Literature Nobelist Henri | 30 |
| 1927 literary Nobelist Bergson | 30 |
| 1927 lander at Paris | 20 |
| 1927 Jolson classic, with "The" | 41 |
| 1927 headliner's nickname | 29 |
| 1927 E. E. Cummings play | 24 |
| 1927 A.A. Milne book | 20 |
| 1927 #1 song | 12 |
| 1926 ticker-tape parade honoree for swimming | 44 |
| 1926 song, 'When Day --' | 32 |
| 1926 novel set in Pamplona | 26 |
| 1926 La Scala premiere | 22 |
| 1926 Jean Renoir film | 21 |
| 1926 hit "Sleepy Time ___" | 36 |
| 1926 English Channel swimmer Gertrude | 37 |
| 1926 English Channel swimmer | 28 |
| 1926 English Channel crosser | 28 |
| 1926 channel swimmer | 20 |
| 1926 "Moby-Dick" adaptation starring John Barrymore, with "The" | 83 |
| 1926 "Boy Wonder" of baseball | 39 |
| 1925 trial name | 15 |