| 1940 Tyrone Power swashbuckler, with "The" | 52 |
| 1940 Tyrone Power adventure film, with "The" | 54 |
| 1940 screwball comedy based on "The Front Page" | 57 |
| 1939 novel about residue from King KongÂ’s dinner? | 53 |
| 1939 Best Picture nominee banned in the Soviet Union | 52 |
| 1938 play with only chairs, tables and ladders as props | 55 |
| 1938 Oscar nominee for "You Can't Take It With You" | 65 |
| 1938 "The War of the Worlds" broadcast, for one | 57 |
| 1937's "The Prince and the Pauper" star | 53 |
| 1937 Ronald Colman adventure film, with "The" | 55 |
| 1937 film about Dr. Hugo Z. Hackenbush's travails | 53 |
| 1936 Rodgers and Hart musical that incorporated jazz in its score | 65 |
| 1935 movie starring Helen Gahagan as Queen Hash-a-Mo-Tep of Kor | 63 |
| 1935 film whose title refers to Shirley Temple's hair style | 63 |
| 1934 musical featuring "I Only Have Eyes for You" | 59 |
| 1934 Kentucky Derby winner or a 1933 film that won Best Picture | 63 |
| 1934 Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers movie, with "The" | 59 |
| 1933 film in which Claude Raines is seen ... and not seen? | 58 |
| 1932 film with Gary Cooper, Helen Hayes, and Adolphe Menjou | 59 |
| 1932 Barbara Stanwyck film based on a Pulitzer-winning novel | 60 |
| 1930s French premier, whose name is a homophone of "bloom" | 68 |
| 1930s bank robber pursued by the FBIÂ’s Melvin Purvis | 56 |
| 1930 Physics Nobelist Sir Chandrasekhara Venkara ___ | 52 |
| 1930 novel whose title was taken from "Twelfth Night" | 63 |
| 1930 Harry Richman hit whose title describes ostentatious living | 64 |
| 1929's "Street Girl" was its first official production | 68 |
| 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 #1 song heard in a 1990 Steve Martin film of the same name | 63 |
| 1925 novel for which the author declined a Pulitzer Prize | 57 |
| 1925 musical based on the play "My Lady Friends" | 58 |
| 1925 hit musical with the song "Tea for Two" | 54 |
| 1924 novel whose 1995 book club edition had elephants on the cover | 66 |
| 1924 novel that won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction | 67 |
| 1924 Kentucky Derby winner or a 1947 Anthony Quinn drama | 56 |
| 1921 play that introduced the word "robot" | 52 |
| 1920s-'40s baseballer with a retired "4" | 54 |
| 1920s-'30s stone-faced comic actor causes a war of words? | 61 |
| 1920's-40's Yankees manager Barrow and others | 53 |
| 1920's musical with the sequel "Yes, Yes, Yvette" | 63 |
| 1919 World Series winners over the "Black Sox" | 56 |
| 1919 Pulitzer-winning autobiography, with "The" | 57 |
| 1919 novel set in Paris and Tahiti, with "The" | 56 |
| 1918 hit song about "a maid with hair of gold" | 56 |
| 1913 novel whose title ends with an exclamation point | 53 |
| 1909 Physics Nobelist for work in wireless telegraphy | 53 |
| 1906 novel that helped produce widespread social reforms | 56 |
| 1905 George Bernard Shaw play made into a 1941 Rex Harrison film | 64 |
| 1902 Kentucky Derby winner that was named after a fictional character | 69 |
| 18th-century London political/literary establishment | 52 |
| 1897 novel subtitled "A Grotesque Romance" | 52 |
| 1894 novel whose title character likes to collect fingerprints | 62 |
| 1891 Chekhov novella featuring pistols that never fire | 54 |
| 1887 Victorien Sardou play on which an opera is based | 53 |
| 1887 novel subtitled "A History of Adventure" | 55 |
| 1876 opera that typically lasts five hours or longer | 52 |
| 1870 opera famously excerpted in "Apocalypse Now" | 59 |
| 1869 coastal painting by Gustave Courbet, with "The" | 62 |
| 1867 book subtitled "Kritik der politischen Ökonomie" | 67 |
| 1860s novel that is the basis for this puzzle's theme | 57 |
| 1860 presidential candidate who won Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia | 69 |
| 1848 presidential candidate after whom eight U.S. counties are named | 68 |
| 1847 novel with the chapter "Life at Loohooloo" | 57 |
| 1847 novel based on its author's time in the Society Islands | 64 |
| 1847 "Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas" | 58 |
| 1846 book subtitled "A Peep at Polynesian Life" | 57 |
| 1830 Hugo play on which a similarly named Verdi opera is based | 62 |
| 1822 Walter Scott novel about Capt. Clement Cleveland | 53 |
| 1818 Lord Byron poem subtitled "A Venetian Story" | 59 |
| 17th-century Dutch philosopher who wrote "Ethics" | 59 |
| 17th-century actress Nell who was Charles II's mistress | 59 |
| 17 of them are sung before "my gosh" in a 2010 #1 Usher hit | 69 |
| 16th-century work also known as "La Gioconda" | 55 |
| 16th-century Italian composer, subject of a 1917 German opera | 61 |
| 1606 play of the Shakespeare apocrypha, with "The" | 60 |
| 15th-century pontiff who was the only pope to write an autobiography | 68 |
| 15th-century painter of "The Adoration of the Magi" | 61 |
| 15th-century French king nicknamed "the Prudent" | 58 |
| 15th century prince who was the inspiration for Dracula | 55 |
| 1571 battle site where Cervantes lost the use of his left hand | 62 |
| 155-mi. Asian strip that intersects the 38th parallel | 53 |
| 154 minutes of Whoopi Goldberg just mixing red and blue paint? | 62 |
| 1500s painter known for his "Lives" of Italian artists | 64 |
| 15-time N.B.A. All-Star who announced his retirement on Twitter | 63 |
| 15, for any row, column or diagonal of a 3x3 magic square | 57 |
| 14th-century Russian ruler called "the Moneybag" | 58 |
| 12/31, initially, or what is blacked out in this puzzle | 55 |
| 12-month subscription to a punster's groan-inducing newsletter? | 67 |
| 12 of these is the single-player record for an MLB game | 55 |
| 114-chapter text that's Arabic for "book" | 55 |
| 11-year old spy in a Louise Fitzhugh children's novel | 57 |
| 11 p.m. business report for Japanese stock watchers? | 52 |
| 10th-century pope interred at St. Peter's Basilica | 54 |
| 10th-cen. Holy Roman Emperor known as "the Great" | 59 |
| 100th anniversary of Disney's "Fantasia" | 54 |
| 100000000011, converted from binary to Roman numerals | 53 |
| 10-time "Muscle & Fitness" cover subject | 54 |
| 1,500 years before the Wright brothers' first flight | 56 |
| 1,000 years before the coronation of Queen Elizabeth I | 54 |