| 1956 film that earned an Oscar nomination for 11-year-old Patty McCormack | 73 |
| 1957 Everly Brothers hit with the repeated lyric "Hello loneliness" | 77 |
| 1957 song that begins "The most beautiful sound I ever heard ..." | 75 |
| 1958 #1 song with the lyric "Let's fly way up to the clouds" | 74 |
| 1959 comedy featuring Peter Sellers in three roles, with "The" | 72 |
| 1959 Cornelius Ryan best-seller about the Normandy invasion, with "The" | 81 |
| 1959 hit based on the traditional folk song "The Wreck of the Old 97" | 79 |
| 1959 hit with a melody based on the folk song "The Wreck of the Old 97" | 81 |
| 1959 hit with the line "Charlie couldn't get off of that train" | 77 |
| 1959 hit with the lyric "Did he ever return? No, he never returned" | 77 |
| 1959 hit with the lyric "One day I feel so happy, next day I feel so sad" | 83 |
| 1959 musical by Jule Styne, featuring Ethel Merman as a domineering stage mother | 80 |
| 1959 Mystics song title word repeated before "Oh my darlin' don't you cry" | 92 |
| 1959 novella that begins "The first time I saw Brenda she asked me to hold her glasses" | 97 |
| 1959 Tony-nominated play whose 2014 Broadway production stars Denzel Washington | 79 |
| 1960 #1 hit from the album "Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs" | 73 |
| 1960 historical film written and directed by John Wayne, with "The" | 77 |
| 1960 song with the line "Take me by my little hand and go like this" | 78 |
| 1960's doo-wop group that was a one-hit wonder, with "the" | 72 |
| 1960's pop group named after a phrase from "A Midsummer Night's Dream" | 88 |
| 1960s-'70s group originally known as the Teenagers, with "the" | 76 |
| 1961 #1 hit for Dion, and a literal hint to this puzzle's hidden theme | 74 |
| 1961 and 1986 Oscar-nominated role for Paul Newman (only five times has the same actor been nominated for the same role in two films) | 133 |
| 1961 film with the tagline "The greatest romance and adventure in a thousand years!" | 94 |
| 1962 Anne Sexton poetry collection whose title comes from “Macbeth” | 75 |
| 1962 chart topper whose title subject "doesn't do what everybody else does" | 89 |
| 1962 hit in which the background singers repeat "The bossa nova" many times | 85 |
| 1962 hit that starts "Tho we gotta say goodbye for the summer ..." | 76 |
| 1962 hit with the lyric "Like the samba sound, my heart begins to pound" | 82 |
| 1962 hit with the lyrics "the truth could mean I'd lose you" | 74 |
| 1962 movie for which Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke won Oscars, with "The" | 82 |
| 1963 animated film with the song "Higitus Figitus," with "The" | 82 |
| 1963 Beach Boys hit that begins "There's a world where I can go / And tell my secrets to" | 103 |
| 1963 Elvis hit with the lyrics "You look like an angel ... but I got wise" | 84 |
| 1963 hit for the Drifters ... or where you can see the ends of the starred answers | 82 |
| 1963 hour-long "Twilight Zone" episode with a Bible-inspired title | 76 |
| 1963 movie with the tagline "Everybody who's ever been funny is in it!" | 85 |
| 1963 western with a tagline "The man with the barbed wire soul!" | 74 |
| 1964 Berne best seller (and a hint to seven other answers in this puzzle) | 73 |
| 1964 hit with the lyric "C'mon and turn it on, wind it up, blow it out" | 85 |
| 1964 hit with the lyric "she looks straight ahead, not at me," with "The" | 93 |
| 1965 "vagabond" song that's featured in "Brokeback Mountain" | 84 |
| 1965 Beatles hit that begins "Got a good reason for taking the easy way out" | 86 |
| 1965 Godard film, "Pierrot ___" (meaning "the madman") | 74 |
| 1965 movie in which Sophia Loren and Paul Newman are both really nice on the eyes | 81 |
| 1965 R&B #1 song with the repeated lyric "Can't you see that I'm lonely?" | 95 |
| 1965 Righteous Brothers hit repopularized by its use in the 1990 film "Ghost" | 87 |
| 1965 song with the lyric "Isn't he a bit like you and me?" | 72 |
| 1965 song with the lyric "These are words that go together well" | 74 |
| 1966 album that's #2 on Rolling Stone's all-time greatest albums list | 77 |
| 1966 hit with the lyric "I wanna see the sun blotted out from the sky" | 80 |
| 1966 Rolling Stones hit ... or an instruction to be followed four times in this puzzle | 86 |
| 1966 two-person Broadway musical about a married couple's life together | 75 |
| 1967 #1 hit whose lyrics begin "What you want / Baby, I got it" | 73 |
| 1967 hit with the lyric "You know you're a cute little heartbreaker" | 82 |
| 1967 hit with the repeated lyric "Yes I am / And I can't help / But love you so" | 94 |
| 1967 war film, and an apt description for this puzzle's starred answers | 75 |
| 1968 #2 hit with the lyric "My love for you is way out of line" | 73 |
| 1968 hit whose title is repeated three times with "Oh" and then again after "Baby I love you" | 113 |
| 1968 hit with the lyric "I like the way you walk, I like the way you talk" | 84 |
| 1968 song with the lyric "Remember to let her into your heart" | 72 |
| 1969 Cream hit ... or a hint to the seven "mathematical" clues in this puzzle | 87 |
| 1969 Creedence Clearwater Revival hit about being averse to part of a puzzle? | 77 |
| 1969 film character who said "I'm walkin' here! I'm walkin' here!" | 92 |
| 1969 hit with the repeated lyric "Big wheel keep on turnin'" | 74 |
| 1969 literary heroine who says "I like the words damozel, eglantine, elegant. I love when you kiss my elongated white hand" | 133 |
| 1969 song with the lyric "Once there was a way to get back homeward" | 78 |
| 1970 #1 hit that was later found to be a ripoff of "He's So Fine" | 79 |
| 1970 #1 hit whose title follows the lyric "Speaking words of wisdom ..." | 82 |
| 1970 article by Germaine Greer, which was an early example of the reappropriation of a degrading word | 101 |
| 1970 hit song with the lyric "You know you done me wrong, baby, and you'll be sorry someday" | 106 |
| 1970 hit with the lyric "Girls will be boys and boys will be girls" | 77 |
| 1970's pop singer with "I'd Really Love to See You Tonight" | 77 |
| 1970's TV character whose real first name was Arthur, with "the" | 78 |
| 1970s R&B trio in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, with "the" | 74 |
| 1970s-'80s band whose debut album was the soundtrack to a Richard Pryor film | 80 |
| 1971 film with the tagline "You don't assign him to murder cases. You just turn him loose." | 105 |
| 1971 hit for Jean Knight with the lyric "Who do you think you are?" | 77 |
| 1971 hit that begins "Busted flat in Baton Rouge / waiting for a train" | 81 |
| 1971 hit with the lyric "He danced for those at minstrel shows" | 73 |
| 1971 Oscar-winning film whose title is hinted at nine times in this grid | 72 |
| 1972 #1 hit with the lyric "I'm right up the road / I'll share your load" | 91 |
| 1972 Bill Withers hit whose title precedes "when you're not strong" | 81 |
| 1972 hit that begins "What'll you do when you get lonely ...?" | 76 |
| 1973 blaxploitation film about a female secret agent busting drug traffickers | 77 |
| 1973 film with the tagline "Many of his fellow officers considered him the most dangerous man alive -- an honest cop" | 127 |
| 1973 Peter Fonda travel drama in which Lindsay Wagner's character asks to share some kif | 92 |
| 1974 #1 double album that included Peter Cetera's "Wishing You Were Here" | 87 |
| 1974 Mocedades hit whose English version is titled "Touch the Wind" | 77 |
| 1974 spoof with the tagline "Would you buy a used secret from these men?" | 83 |
| 1974 thriller that begins with the Kennedy assassination, with "The" | 78 |
| 1975 #1 hit song with the lyrics "the love you gave me, nothing else can save me" | 91 |
| 1975 film whose main character was nicknamed "Bruce" by the crew | 74 |
| 1975 musical with the song "Believe in Yourself," with "The" | 80 |
| 1976 best seller that opens "four days upriver from the coast of The Gambia" | 86 |
| 1976 movie that parts of the other four movie titles describe from start to finish | 82 |
| 1976 Neil Young-Stephen Stills single, and a phonetic hint to this puzzle | 73 |
| 1977 cult film with the tagline "Where your nightmares end ..." | 73 |
| 1977 David Bowie album whose cover was altered for his 2013 album "The Next Day" | 90 |
| 1977 double-platinum album with the hits "Peg" and "Deacon Blues" | 85 |